How to Use lifeway in a Sentence

lifeway

noun
  • Citizen data must be treated with the same protection as physical sovereignty, and outcomes must strengthen rather than erode the community’s lifeways.
    Ron Schmelzer, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2025
  • Many of these children not only survived, but learned the skills and lifeways of their captors, often becoming fully assimilated into the cultures that had once seemed utterly foreign.
    Literary Hub, 8 July 2026
  • The market is held on the grounds of the S'edav Va'aki Museum, which highlights the home and lifeways of one of the Salt River Valley's earliest peoples, the Huhugam.
    Debra Utacia Krol, AZCentral.com, 10 Dec. 2025
  • The First Americans Museum in Oklahoma City showcases the lifeways, cultures and histories of the 39 distinct Tribes living in the state.
    Kit Bernardi, USA Today, 31 Oct. 2025
  • As the forces of American politics, economics, and culture triumphed over Indigenous lifeways, the frontier moved on to the Ohio River Valley, then Kentucky and Tennessee, and Kansas and Nebraska.
    Literary Hub, 1 Apr. 2026

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