How to Use Navajo in a Sentence

Navajo

noun
Definition of Navajonext
  • Her visit was cut short: A group of Navajo landowners blocked the road to the canyon, protesting the ban.
    — Jack Herrera, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2024
  • The land has so much history and is sacred to the Navajo.
    — Sari Hitchins, Parents, 23 May 2024
  • The Navajo, Manzanita and Ruffin canyons are on the list of places to tackle.
    — Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Nov. 2023
  • On the bright side, one company struck it rich on the Navajo Nation.
    — Michael Braga, The Arizona Republic, 14 May 2024
  • Known as the Navajo class, these are built for towing, rescue and salvage work.
    — Lawrence Specker | [email protected], al, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Young said some of the most remote parts of the Navajo Nation are a half hour or more away from a polling place or ballot drop box.
    — Jessica Boehm, Axios, 13 Sep. 2024
  • The source uranium for those pits was scraped from the ground in mines in the Southwest, hundreds of them on Navajo Nation lands.
    — Abe Streep, Scientific American, 10 Nov. 2023
  • The Navajo sought to have the child placed with a distant relative, who lives on a reservation.
    — Abbie Vansickle, New York Times, 15 June 2023
  • Reynolds later joked that not a lot of people saw his own Western films, with names like Navajo Joe.
    — Gillian Telling, Peoplemag, 31 Dec. 2023
  • The Navajo Nation now says its members should have the right to profit off of those fossil fuels.
    — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2023
  • The Navajo tacos on fry bread and chile rellenos smothered in green sauce at the beloved breakfast and lunch stop Viola’s shouldn’t be missed.
    — Laura Kiniry, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 June 2023
  • The Navajo Nation has one of the largest single outstanding claims in the Colorado River basin.
    — Susan Montoya Bryan, Fortune, 24 May 2024
  • The family said more jails, even a prison system on the Navajo Nation, is needed.
    — Arlyssa D. Becenti, The Arizona Republic, 2 May 2024
  • Located in the Navajo Nation near Page, Ariz., the slot canyon’s warm colors come from iron oxide, or rust, in the sandstone.
    — Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 8 Feb. 2024
  • The couple prefer to speak in Navajo, so their daughter-in-law translated for Wilbur.
    — Jacqui Palumbo, CNN, 29 Apr. 2023
  • The Brackeens were a white couple who had adopted a Navajo boy and wanted to adopt his half sister, too.
    — Larissa MacFarquhar, The New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2023
  • The objection lies in the fact that traditions of the Diné (the Navajo people), like those of many Indigenous peoples, hold the moon sacred.
    — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 5 Jan. 2024
  • In Navajo, a version of the bun, when tied with sheepskin, is called a tsiiyeel, and is thought to contain the worries and hopes of an entire people.
    — Brennan Kilbane, Allure, 5 Dec. 2023
  • The couple won custody in 2018 after a two-year legal battle when the Navajo Nation backed down.
    — Devin Dwyer, ABC News, 15 June 2023
  • Last year, Connecting Compton led a voter drive in Arizona to get Navajo members to the polls.
    — Silvia Foster-Frau, Washington Post, 15 May 2023
  • In 2018, the doctor advised Bronston, who lives in the Navajo Nation, to take Ozempic to lower his blood sugar.
    — Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY, 21 Mar. 2024
  • All states but two — Hawaii and Arizona (with the exception of the Navajo Nation) — observe daylight saving time.
    — Diba Mohtasham, NPR, 8 Mar. 2024
  • How a solar eclipse threw a remote Utah town — and its Navajo workforce — into crisis.
    — Kevinisha Walker, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2023
  • On Thursday, the justices tossed out a lawsuit brought by Navajo Nation seeking more water rights and ruled the issue is one for Congress, not the courts.
    — Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 24 June 2023
  • After decades of commercial mining in the area, much of the Navajo Nation in the Southwest lacks access to clean drinking water.
    — Cameron Pugh, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Hillis grew up with strong ties to her community, and most of her friends are also Navajo K-pop listeners.
    — Renata Yazzie, SPIN, 15 May 2024
  • The rooms have a quiet luxury, thanks to the soothing earth-tone color palette and the handwoven Navajo rug that takes the place of honor over every bed.
    — Lois Alter Mark, Travel + Leisure, 6 May 2024
  • Rangers anticipate that the entire Navajo Loop Trail will be ready for visitors in June.
    — Sean Catangui, New York Times, 28 May 2023
  • In 1946, for example, Navajo citizens attempted to register to vote in Arizona and were denied, as were two people from the Yavapai tribe.
    — Ashawnta Jackson, JSTOR Daily, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Skinwalkers Skinwalkers are a central figure in Navajo folklore, known as witches or evil shamans with the ability to shape-shift into animals or other people.
    — Tiffany Acosta, The Arizona Republic, 10 Oct. 2024

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