How to Use tepee in a Sentence

tepee

noun

• There’s pictures of them with wolves in front of their tepees.
  — Lynda V. Mapes, The Seattle Times, 5 Aug. 2017
• And, yes, there’s a cute tepee in the corner.
  — Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Feb. 2026
• Its trunk begins five feet off the ground, sprouting from a tepee of roots.
  — Nell Zink, Harper's magazine, 28 Oct. 2019
• Lean the smallest sticks on the tepee, leaving a doorway to face the wind.
  — Michael Stillwell, Popular Mechanics, 27 Mar. 2023
• Toward midnight, a half-dozen of us climb a hill behind the tepee.
  — Sallie Tisdale, Harper's Magazine, 24 Nov. 2020
• Add homespun charm to your decor with our tepee and campfire cross-stitched pumpkins.
  — Charlyne Mattox, Country Living, 15 July 2022
• While eating in the tepee in the village his legs were suddenly laced with pain.
  — David Treuer, Harper's magazine, 10 Jan. 2019
• The tepee where the wife and husband lived was unquestionably hers.
  — Mona Gable, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Apr. 2023
• Then build a towering log-cabin fire structure around the tepee.
  — T. Edward Nickens, Field & Stream, 9 Jan. 2017
• Form a tepee with three 6-inch-tall sticks, and place smaller sticks on the floor as a platform for the tinder.
  — Michael Stillwell, Popular Mechanics, 27 Mar. 2023
• The flaps of the set’s tepees are smeared red from all the people entering and exiting.
  — Jennifer Percy, Harper's magazine, 20 Jan. 2020
• Hinman said part of the farm’s appeal was sitting around a fire in the tepee and drinking hot cocoa.
  — Peter Marteka, Courant Community, 19 Dec. 2017
• That may be building with Legos, sitting alone in a tepee or reading a book.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 Feb. 2021
• There is art and clothing and jewelry, and a tepee where mannequins gather around a fake fire.
  — Brooke Jarvis, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2019
• Attendees were housed in white tepee-like tents, with portable toilets set up down a dirt path.
  — Casey Schwartz, New York Times, 21 Sep. 2017
• Groups of friends were erecting tepees next to camper vans overflowing with grubby children.
  — Kent Russell, Harper's Magazine, 11 May 2022
• At the back of the peninsula, near a cluster of redwoods, stood a giant tepee, at least twenty feet high.
  — Scott Eden, Rolling Stone, 1 Feb. 2026
• Room-wise, expect spacious suites featuring pop-up sets like princess castles or tepees and, in some, brilliant city views.
  — Elissa Garay, AFAR Media, 3 Sep. 2025
• Protesters set up the poles of a large tepee that stood partly on the road and partly on the Enbridge driveway.
  — Jordan Shearer, Twin Cities, 19 Aug. 2019
• Rental villages of tepees, domes, A-frames and shipping containers sprawl across scrub-brush hillsides.
  — Elizabeth Findell, WSJ, 25 Dec. 2023
• On Friday, there’s a station set up behind the tepees where the performers put on redface.
  — Jennifer Percy, Harper's magazine, 20 Jan. 2020
• Consider making a tepee or similar structure to conserve space and send the vining bean plants up a rope grid.
  — Tom MacCubbin, The Orlando Sentinel, 4 Apr. 2026
• Light the tinder, and once the sticks catch fire, layer on more kindling, then another tepee of larger logs, keeping the doorways open.
  — Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 Sep. 2021
• The tribe moves through the Taiga forest with its reindeer, following the moss the herd snacks on every few weeks, setting up tepees as needed.
  — Meredith Carey, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Nov. 2018
• The triangulation principle gives extra strength to the tepee form, but boxlike structures can be made to work, too.
  — Barbara Damrosch, The Denver Post, 5 May 2017
• Women would have been at work tanning hides for tepees, moccasins, shirts and breeches, and drying and curing meat for the coming northern winter.
  — Tim Madigan, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Oct. 2024
• Those of us who join the archaeologist at the prehistoric site are the last people to see the ten-thousand-year-old ashpits and tepee circles.
  — Anna Badkhen, Harper’s Magazine , 28 Sep. 2022
• Planet Marfa, an outdoor dive bar with a courtyard centered around a tepee and a school bus, was my go-to spot to escape the afternoon heat with a cold beer.
  — Anna Mazurek, Washington Post, 24 June 2022
• Guests can practice yoga and meditation at an on-site yoga tepee and deck built on a spiritual vortex once identified by a shaman.
  — Megan Michelson, Outside Online, 13 Apr. 2019
• Native American tribal members spend the week living in a tepee village just outside the rodeo grounds and perform dances in full regalia.
  — oregonlive, 14 Sep. 2019