How to Use chieftain in a Sentence

chieftain

noun

• One of them may have been the chieftain who buried the weapons.
  — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Feb. 2025
• Few oil chieftains at the time were moving in that direction.
  — Bradley Olson, WSJ, 2 Apr. 2018
• And the coffee chieftain is hard at work — the two men who were arrested have agreed to meet with him.
  — Ellen McGirt, Fortune, 16 Apr. 2018
• Stay above the snake-line, or Viking chieftain Mike Pence may stop by with his mighty sword.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 21 Apr. 2017
• But the comfort of sitting with longtime staffers may not be enough for the corporate chieftains.
  — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 28 Mar. 2023
• Karthi essayed the role of chieftain Vallavaraiyan Vandiyadevan.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 17 Sep. 2023
• Colum will be named laird and Dougal will be his war chieftain — in charge if and when the clan enters into a war.
  — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 15 Aug. 2025
• Dougal refuses, claiming the clan will need a chieftain should war come knocking at their door.
  — Lincee Ray Published, EW.com, 8 Aug. 2025
• His role evolved from master teacher to tribal chieftain to God himself.
  — David Peisner, Rolling Stone, 23 Feb. 2025
• The moai statues were built in honor of chieftains and other important people who had died.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 8 Oct. 2025
• And the coffee chieftain is already making things happen — the two men who were arrested have agreed to meet with him.
  — Ellen McGirt, Fortune, 16 Apr. 2018
• The fragments of two distinct bronze neck rings, thought to belong to a chieftain, were also identified.
  — Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 11 Feb. 2025
• Others are obscure, such as tales of ancient Goth chieftains, quirky medieval craftsmen, and old stores.
  — Andrew Moravcsik, Foreign Affairs, 20 Dec. 2022
• In the sixth century the chieftain attracted skilled artisans to the area, and later buried his large gold hoard.
  — CNN, 13 Sep. 2021
• The rare, valuable objects uncovered from the site point to the power and influence the chieftain had.
  — Ashlyn Messier, Fox News, 4 Dec. 2024
• The Met’s chieftain has had prior issues with free expression in the cultural press.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
• Based on the true story of Ka'iana, a war chieftain who travels to the outside world and learns more about the men invading his island home.
  — Emily Burack, Town & Country, 12 Apr. 2022
• Khanzada spent the next decade with the Uzbeks, during which she was divorced by the chieftain and married to another man.
  — Gitanjali Roy, Encyclopedia Britannica, 5 Mar. 2026
• Many white genealogy buffs can trace their family trees all the way back to Huguenot rebels or Scottish chieftains.
  — Jennie Rothenberg Gritz, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Dec. 2023
• Moroccan resort is less than an hour’s drive south of Marrakesh, and was formerly a palace for a Berber chieftain.
  — John Wogan, Travel + Leisure, 8 July 2020
• Fans will meet her as the daughter of the chieftain of the Raven Clan who's been trained since birth to become part of an elite guard that protects the monarchy.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 26 Sep. 2022
• Hollywood chieftains of yesteryear were never an admirable crew.
  — Chris O'Falt, IndieWire, 24 Mar. 2026
• That would explain the towering sculpture in the town square, made out of scrap metal, depicting a Muisca chieftain in mid-throw.
  — John Otis, WSJ, 4 Dec. 2018
• The restaurant’s 7-foot-tall doorman wore the robe of a Watusi chieftain, and became something of a local celebrity.
  — Dallas News, 28 Feb. 2022
• King Charles became chieftain of the games in 2002, following in the footsteps of his late mother.
  — Kirsty Hatcher, Peoplemag, 7 Aug. 2023
• The answer lies in compromise — Colum will be named Laird, but Dougal will be war chieftain and laird in times of battle.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker Published, EW.com, 16 Aug. 2025
• The son of a wealthy chieftain in West Africa had just returned home from an apprenticeship when a raiding army attacked their village.
  — Lindsey McGinnis, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Dec. 2020
• Collins has emerged as a something like a de facto chieftain within the insurgent AMC investor group.
  — Abram Brown, Forbes, 13 June 2021
• The chieftains of the regime seem to care more about their freedom to travel and hold property around the world than about the hardships of ordinary Venezuelans.
  — Moisés Naím, Foreign Affairs, 28 Sep. 2021
• The blind former rebel chieftain, wearing his trademark kaffiyeh scarf, took the oath in a no-frills ceremony in a small office in the congress building.
  — Kejal Vyas, WSJ, 11 June 2019