How to Use Ute in a Sentence

Ute

noun
  • In fact, their Ute neighbors had warned the white settlers to avoid these sacred ruins.
    Mike Bezemek, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 July 2025
  • Guests can stay in the home that’s built right into the red rock cliff wall of Sleeping Ute Mountain.
    Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 3 Nov. 2023
  • The viewer might not pick up on some of the nuances between the Shoshone, the Ute, and the Paiute, but there are nuances like fringe.
    Mark Peikert, IndieWire, 28 Jan. 2025
  • Members of the Southern Ute and Ute Mountain Ute tribes will be able to enter state parks for free.
    Seth Klamann, Denver Post, 5 Aug. 2025
  • But at least 19 deceased children of the Ute tribe, which has a prominent presence in the southwestern corner of the state, were recorded.
    Alayna Alvarez, Axios, 8 Aug. 2024
  • In 2018, an individual gave a couple acres of land back to the Ute Tribe just a few years after buying it.
    Joseph Lee, Vox, 26 Nov. 2024
  • That station was founded in 1976 by the Southern Ute Indian Tribe.
    David Bauder, Twin Cities, 28 May 2025
  • The monument is located within the homelands of the Ute Indian Tribe, and at the heart of Colorado ski country.
    Laura Kiniry, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 June 2023
  • Curley said the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe opposes the transportation of uranium ore through its reservation.
    Arlyssa D. Becenti, The Arizona Republic, 31 July 2024
  • Few others have attempted to attach climbing gyms and food service; Ute & Yeti in Colorado Springs may be the only predecessor.
    Benjy Egel, Sacramento Bee, 1 Feb. 2024
  • The Ute Mountain Ute Tribe passed a resolution banning the transportation of uranium ore through its lands, which include state highways.
    The Arizona Republic, 10 Jan. 2024
  • Though it was first discovered by the Southern Ute Tribe centuries ago, this site has been home to a more European-style bathhouse since 1881.
    Emily Pennington, Outside Online, 28 Feb. 2025
  • What the athletic directors are saying Ute has gotten feedback on expansion since he was hired in September 2020.
    Brendan Connelly, The Enquirer, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Starting our stroll around the water, Benton pointed out that long before Bird’s arrival, the area was inhabited by the Ute and Arapaho people.
    Laura Kiniry, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Written accounts from the late 19th and early 20th centuries among Ute, Shoshone and Arapaho peoples describe moose stories, hunts and songs.
    John Wendt, The Conversation, 11 Aug. 2025
  • Disturbing dreams convinced Rich Snyder to surrender his $3,000 Colorado homestead to the Ute.
    Travis Diehl, New York Times, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Prehistoric mammoth hunters roamed here for thousands of years, followed by the Ute and Arapaho people who summered within the current park bounds until the early 1800s.
    Elisabeth Kwak-Hefferan, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 July 2023
  • The people with the oldest, best claim on this land are Indigenous communities including the Ute, Paiute, and Shoshone, each of which has its own strategies for surviving the influx of colonizers.
    Judy Berman, TIME, 9 Jan. 2025

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