How to Use Choctaw in a Sentence

Choctaw

noun

• In 1909, two girls – one white and one Choctaw – subsist in the woods after fleeing abuse.
  — Staff, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 June 2024
• The Creek and Choctaw people both refer to it as the mulberry moon, while the Cree call it the frog moon.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 11 May 2025
• The head prosecutor for the Choctaw Nation said that the tribe’s caseload increased by more than two thousand per cent.
  — Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2024
• But the Jackets bothered Choctaw with their run-and-jump defensive pressure in the second half and upped their production.
  — Buddy Collings, orlandosentinel.com, 4 Mar. 2021
• Native American Choctaw Indians were the first to use this spice as a seasoning.
  — Aly Walansky, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2023
• According to the press release, there were five Choctaw police officers at the game, per usual, as well as two officers on duty who stopped by.
  — Alexis Jones, Peoplemag, 27 Aug. 2023
• New insights into the potato famine in Ireland were revealed, as well as the oppression of the Choctaw Nation.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Oct. 2023
• Our latest taco excursion takes us to a restaurant in Choctaw Stadium, the former home of the Texas Rangers.
  — Tasha Tsiaperas, Axios, 16 July 2024
• Coming from Choctaw Nation descent, Bell captured in his art Indigenous culture and wildlife.
  — Alena Naiden, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Aug. 2023
• Some assistance has come from the Choctaw Nation, the country’s third-largest Native American tribe.
  — Julie Satow, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2023
• Teams will use Choctaw Stadium, and high school facilities in Mansfield and Southlake.
  — Mac Engel, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 31 Jan. 2025
• Eleven-year-old Olive Augusta Radley knows that her stepfather doesn’t have good intentions toward the two Choctaw girls boarded in their home as wards.
  — Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 21 June 2024
• In the town of Choctaw, east of Oklahoma City, firefighters and police officers went door to door Sunday morning to ask about injuries.
  — Associated Press, TIME, 3 Nov. 2024
• Val’s quest to uncover the truth wins an ally among the neighboring Choctaw Tribal Police but soon collides with old secrets and the tragic and deadly history of the land itself.
  — Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 21 June 2024
• The play is about the experience of the outsider in America—immigrants, the Choctaw, the Black majority in Mississippi; those themes feel very clear and strong in the text.
  — Liz Appel, Vogue, 21 July 2023
• Over the course of the ensuing proxy war between the two tribes, the Choctaw Nation spent nearly $18 million to support passage of the amendment and the Cherokee Nation spent nearly $16 million to defeat it.
  — Arkansas Online, 28 Aug. 2025
• Gulfside then teamed up with the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma to challenge the awarding of the license to the two entities, and eventually succeeded in having that license declared null and void by the Arkansas Supreme Court in late 2023.
  — Arkansas Online, 28 Aug. 2025
• The Hopi-Choctaw artist born in 1947 has been at the vanguard of contemporary Native American art since enrolling as a member of the first class of 140 students at the Institute of American Indian Art in Santa Fe, NM in 1962.
  — Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025