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Lenape is an English word. Below you'll find 9 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.

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Lenape in a sentence

Lenape meaning

A member of a group of aboriginal Americans who were living in what is now New Jersey and along the Delaware River in Pennsylvania, the coast of Delaware, and the lower Hudson Valley and New York Harbor in New York, at the time of the arrival of the Europeans in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Using Lenape

  • The main meaning on this page is: A member of a group of aboriginal Americans who were living in what is now New Jersey and along the Delaware River in Pennsylvania, the coast of Delaware, and the lower Hudson Valley and New York Harbor in New York, at the time of the arrival of the Europeans in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
  • In the example corpus, lenape often appears in combinations such as: the lenape, of lenape.

Context around Lenape

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 26.2 words
  • Position in the sentence: 3 start, 3 middle, 3 end
  • Sentence types: 9 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Often before:

surviving 1×

Often after:

people 1× probably 1× remaining 1× moved 1× society 1×

Sentence patterns with Lenape

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

band of lenape for 60 1× cheating the lenape people out 1× community of lenape probably lived 1× including the lenape in the 1× of the lenape 1× sent most lenape remaining in 1× surviving lenape moved west 1× the lenape society was 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

before its coastline 1× d program organized 1× in the 1860s 1× indian land deeds 1× mary kathryn nagle 1× surviving lenape moved 1×

Common sentence endings:

2008 financial crisis 1× building is now 1× common female ancestors 1× in the south 1× indian removal policy 1× of the lenape 1×

Words around Lenape

Just before it in the word index:

lenapah 2 lenana 2 lenalidomide 4 lenain 3 lenaia 3 lenahan 3

Just after it in the word index:

lenarcic 3 lenard 20 lenasia 19 lenat 5 lenawee 6 lenca 4

Similar in corpus frequency:

aakash 12 aanholt 12 aardwolf 12 abadan 12 abati 12 abcc 12

Corpus analysis for Lenape

  • In this selection, "lenape" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 26.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, surviving, people, probably and remaining stand out and add context to how "lenape" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include band of lenape for 60 and cheating the lenape people out. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "lenape" sits close to words such as aakash, aanholt and aardwolf, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with lenape

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

Surviving Lenape moved west into the upper Ohio River basin. (10 words)

The Lenape society was divided into matrilinear clans that were based upon common female ancestors. (15 words)

D. program, organized a treaty signing event at Temple in order to educate younger generations about the culture and language of the Lenape. (23 words)

Longer example sentences

Mary Kathryn Nagle’s explores an unusual and intriguing concept — the juxtaposition of the 17th-century Dutch cheating the Lenape people out of Manhattan Island and the fraudulence that led to the 2008 financial crisis. (35 words)

Before its coastline was explored by Europeans in the 16th century, Delaware was inhabited by several groups of Native Americans, including the Lenape in the north and Nanticoke in the south. (31 words)

In the 1860s, the United States government sent most Lenape remaining in the eastern United States to the Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma and surrounding territory) under the Indian removal policy. (31 words)

Example sentences (9)

Mary Kathryn Nagle’s explores an unusual and intriguing concept — the juxtaposition of the 17th-century Dutch cheating the Lenape people out of Manhattan Island and the fraudulence that led to the 2008 financial crisis.

We think a community of Lenape probably lived just north of City Hall Park, on an inlet of the pond where the New York State Supreme Court building is now.

D. program, organized a treaty signing event at Temple in order to educate younger generations about the culture and language of the Lenape.

Before its coastline was explored by Europeans in the 16th century, Delaware was inhabited by several groups of Native Americans, including the Lenape in the north and Nanticoke in the south.

Indian land deeds recorded by the Dutch from 1636 state that the Indians referred to Long Island as Sewanhaka (Sewanhacky and Sewanhacking were other spellings in the transliteration of Lenape).

In the 1860s, the United States government sent most Lenape remaining in the eastern United States to the Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma and surrounding territory) under the Indian removal policy.

Surviving Lenape moved west into the upper Ohio River basin.

The Lenape society was divided into matrilinear clans that were based upon common female ancestors.

To legally safeguard the settlers' investments, possessions and farms on Manhattan island, Minuit negotiated the "purchase" of Manhattan from a Manahatta band of Lenape for 60 guilders worth of trade goods.

Common combinations with lenape

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "lenape" in a sentence?
An example: "Mary Kathryn Nagle’s explores an unusual and intriguing concept — the juxtaposition of the 17th-century Dutch cheating the Lenape people out of Manhattan Island and the fraudulence that led to the 2008 financial crisis." This page contains 9 example sentences with the word "lenape" from authentic English texts.
What does "lenape" mean?
Lenape means: A member of a group of aboriginal Americans who were living in what is now New Jersey and along the Delaware River in Pennsylvania, the coast of Delaware, and the lower Hudson Valley and New York Harbor in New York, at the time of the arrival of the Europeans in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
How many example sentences with "lenape" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains 9 example sentences with "lenape", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.