How to Use haka in a Sentence

haka

noun

• After the first few numbers, the group brought volunteers onto the stage to do a haka with them.
  — Naomi Tomky, Travel + Leisure, 15 Jan. 2025
• The haka can signal celebration or protest and convey a range of messages.
  — Ronnie Li, USA Today, 13 Oct. 2025
• Each battalion in the New Zealand Army has its own haka, with its own words that the soldiers hiss and bellow.
  — Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 26 Dec. 2022
• Performances such as the haka or songs in Parliament require prior approval.
  — Ronnie Li, USA Today, 13 Oct. 2025
• Footage of the haka posted on X showed the group performing in front of a portrait of Kirk, drawing applause from a crowd of hundreds.
  — Matt Lavietes, NBC news, 14 Sep. 2025
• Regardless, both incidents are part of a complex history of the haka’s place in professional sports.
  — Greg McKenna, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Aug. 2023
• The haka is loud and impressive, but while it is meant to intimidate, today's haka seems to have the opposite effect on the Americans.
  — Eliza Strickland, Discover Magazine, 23 Mar. 2010
• Men with traditional face tattoos, girls performing a haka before a rugby game and horses grazing in a pasture are all part of a complex, isolated world.
  — Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Apr. 2025
• When New Zealand soldiers are killed overseas, their units welcome home their caskets with a haka—the ceremonial Maori dance.
  — Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 26 Dec. 2022
• The haka is a ceremonial Maori chanting dance of defiance that is a cherished cultural symbol of New Zealand.
  — Matt Lavietes, NBC news, 14 Sep. 2025
• The proposal made global headlines when a video went viral of the nation’s youngest legislator tearing the bill in two and leading a haka – a ceremonial Māori dance – in parliament.
  — Todd Symons, CNN Money, 10 Apr. 2025
• Performing the haka in Parliament is not uncommon, and it is typically seen when Māori members celebrate the passage of a particular bill.
  — Julia Zhong, NBC news, 5 June 2025
• On Queen Street in Auckland, a group of protesters performed a haka, the traditional Maori ceremonial dance.
  — Billy Perrigo, Time, 1 June 2020
• New Zealand national teams are known for performing a haka, a ceremonial Maori war challenge, before matches; its men’s rugby team has been doing so for over a century.
  — Rachel Pannett, Washington Post, 20 July 2023
• The Black Ferns were welcomed to the city at the airport by local New Zealand dance group Te Waka Ora, who performed a haka at their arrival.
  — Pj Green, Kansas City Star, 18 Apr. 2026
• All eyes were forward as the players participated in a traditional haka, a ceremonial dance used in many Polynesian cultures to prepare warriors for battle.
  — Matt Murschel, orlandosentinel.com, 12 Jan. 2022
• One of the film’s key sequences — in which Mārama performs a ferocious Māori dance called the haka — was Stappard’s idea, but grew much more impactful with the help of a traditional choreographer.
  — William Earl, Variety, 26 June 2026
• The Masters’ green jacket, the haka before New Zealand rugby matches, the seventh-inning stretch in baseball—these rituals are not just trimmings but the connective tissue of sport.
  — Rick Burton, Sportico.com, 6 Oct. 2025
• The haka is a ceremonial dance with roots in the Maori history of New Zealand, and the bellowing roars and powerful moves are traditionally used to display strength and unity.
  — Lindsay Kimble, PEOPLE.com, 31 July 2021
• New Zealand, then known as the Gal Blacks, had been granted permission from Maori elders to perform the haka, the ceremonial war dance that features chanting, stamping and facial gestures such as pukana (bulging eyes) and whetero (sticking out the tongue).
  — Peter Carline, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2025
• In 2024, Parliament was briefly suspended when Māori lawmakers performed a haka opposing the Treaty Principles Bill, which sought to reinterpret the 184-year-old treaty between the British and Indigenous Māori.
  — Ronnie Li, USA Today, 13 Oct. 2025