How to Use Inuit in a Sentence
Inuit
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In her response, the explorer shows off her knowledge of the Inuit language.
—Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Feb. 2025
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There was no room for First Nations, Métis, or Inuit heritage.
—Hazlitt, 17 Jan. 2024
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Spirit helpers intervene to make things right again in this arctic fairy tale set in an Inuit community.
—Zac Ntim, Deadline, 16 Jan. 2025
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This series teaches about the Inuit culture, which many viewers might be unfamiliar with.
—Dana Feldman, Forbes.com, 26 Mar. 2025
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The two spent six weeks making a film documentary of Inuit people living a nomadic lifestyle.
—Kristi Miller, Twin Cities, 5 Apr. 2025
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There’s a persistent cultural myth that some Inuit languages have a dozen, or fifty, or a hundred words for different kinds of snow.
—Catherine Bray, Variety, 19 May 2024
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For instance, many Inuit homes still have soapstone qulliq lamps, which typically use seal oil for fuel, alongside their light bulbs and laptops.
—Kate Nelson, AFAR Media, 21 Apr. 2025
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The Inuit people have a long history of using kayaks for transportation, hunting, and fishing.
—Erik Kain, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
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Among the Inuit, that stigma stems from memories of previous campaigns to diagnose and treat the disease.
—Melody Schreiber, NPR, 2 May 2024
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The Alaskan Inuit language, known as Iñupiaq, uses an oral counting system built around the human body.
—Amory Tillinghast-Raby, Scientific American, 10 Apr. 2023
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The upbeat soundtrack is a mix of pop hits, Inuktitut-language covers of pop hits and original pop music by Inuit artists.
—Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 10 Apr. 2025
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Most of the company's guides are members of the Inuit community, which still hunts narwhal, according to strict quotas.
—The Week Uk, theweek, 28 Apr. 2024
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The technology has certainly come a long way from when Inuit hunter-gatherers used to wear caribou antlers carved with thin slits in order to prevent snow blindness.
—Todd Plummer, Robb Report, 21 Feb. 2025
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The third trip was to a remote part of North America – an Inuit village on the northern edge of mainland Canada.
—Melanie Stetson Freeman, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Dec. 2023
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Today, most Greenlanders are of Inuit descent and speak both Danish and Greenlandic.
—Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024
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That movement has been led by Egede and the ruling party, the democratic socialist Inuit Ataqatigiit.
—Leah Sarnoff, ABC News, 11 Mar. 2025
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The Indigenous Inuit population in the area was forced to leave the vicinity, one of many colonial injustices.
—Adam Price, The Atlantic, 7 Feb. 2025
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The rhythm and soundscape of Arctic life For centuries, the Inuit have relied on an assurance of ice to support their hunting lifestyles.
—Stephanie Hanes, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Dec. 2024
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The country’s vast ice sheet, glaciers, deep fjords and abundance of marine life, including whales, are the key attractions, while pride in the local Inuit culture is also growing.
—Reuters, CNN, 21 Mar. 2025
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Travelers can expect to see the enormous Greenland ice sheets, icebergs, whales, and remote Inuit hamlets and settlements.
—Paris Wilson, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Dec. 2024
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Many Inuit tribes, such as the Iñupiat of Northern Alaska, still rely on caribou meat for sustenance.
—Gabe Allen, Discover Magazine, 12 Dec. 2023
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The world's largest island has been under Denmark’s control since the 14th century, and most of its citizens belong to Inuit tribes.
—Astha Rajvanshi, NBC News, 9 Jan. 2025
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That corresponds to how people count in Iñupiaq as well as other Inuit and Yup’ik languages, and often makes math more intuitive to students.
—Alena Naiden, Anchorage Daily News, 25 June 2023
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Bergmann’s and Allen’s rules also held up when comparing old data on body sizes in warm climates to those of Sámi, Inuit, and Yuit populations.
—Max G. Levy, WIRED, 6 Jan. 2024
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Accounts gathered from local Inuit people in the 1850s suggested that some of the crew members resorted to cannibalism.
—Katie Hunt, CNN, 11 Oct. 2024
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The present-day Inuit, then, are a mosaic of at least three migrations from Siberia to the Americas, each successive wave intermingling with the peoples already there.
—Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 5 June 2019
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The daughter of Inuit and Danish parents, Christiansen, 57, cherishes Greenland.
—Danica Kirka, Chicago Tribune, 25 Mar. 2025
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Cruise to Greenland’s breathtaking Scoresby Sund, one of the world’s largest fjord systems, and explore its towering icebergs, ancient Inuit villages and wildlife-rich tundra.
—Laura Begley Bloom, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
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Named after the Inuit word for sea ice, the platform integrates real-time sensor data with generations of traditional knowledge about ice behavior, creating navigation tools that are both technologically advanced and culturally grounded.
—Cornelia C. Walther, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
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