Sentence examples for as a tribe of from inspiring English sources

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The Ottoman Turks began as a tribe of nomadic horsemen in Central Asia that in the ninth century embraced Islam.

Or they advance across a game board as a tribe of Israel, racing to settle the ancient land.

That's how he views their fans: as a tribe of beautiful, conflicted outsiders who cluster around the only band who make music about people like them.

Disparagingly called "tinkers," a reference to their former role as tinsmiths, repairing pots and pans as they moved from town to town, they are all too often publicly perceived as a tribe of thieves.

Sometimes the place does seem to do its level best to justify the national caricature of itself as a tribe of liberal "Marin County hot-tubbers" (the insult George H. W. Bush famously and crazily leveled at the "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh).

The book opens with a terrific essay by the historian Simon Schama on Daniel Mendoza, the heavy-fisted 18th-­century British pugilist who mocked the notion of Jews as a tribe "of knuckle-cracking misers, wispy-bearded dotards, shuffling hawkers of oranges and rags with greasy ringlets falling down their faces".

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But their Instagram account illustrates the honest ups-and-downs as a tribe-of-five.

Jim Broadbent, who drags up to play a cleaning lady, and Julian Barratt, as the king of a tribe of shell-encrusted ocean dwellers, are squandered.

Like making 'The Wild One.' " He was referring to the strange film in which he was presented as the Führer of a tribe of Fascistlike delinquents.

As for Miliboy, attention drifted towards a tribe of footballers.

And just as Florent drew a tribe of the city's most free-thinking adventurers, so does Noto.

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