How do you use Pemmican in a sentence? See 9 example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like meat, plus the exact meaning.
Pemmican in a sentence
Pemmican meaning
- A food made from meat which has been dried and beaten into a paste, mixed with berries and rendered fat, and shaped into little patties.
- A speech or piece of writing that is very condensed, conveying a lot of thought or information in few words.
Synonyms of Pemmican
Using Pemmican
- The main meaning on this page is: A food made from meat which has been dried and beaten into a paste, mixed with berries and rendered fat, and shaped into little patties. | A speech or piece of writing that is very condensed, conveying a lot of thought or information in few words.
- Useful related words include: pemican, meat.
- In the example corpus, pemmican often appears in combinations such as: pemmican it, ate pemmican.
Context around Pemmican
- Average sentence length in these examples: 17.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 3 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 9 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Pemmican
- In this selection, "pemmican" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 17.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, ate, indigenous, comparison, mixture, trailhead and sliced stand out and add context to how "pemmican" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include in comparison pemmican is a and let s pemmican it up. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "pemmican" sits close to words such as aargau, abacos and abboud, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with pemmican
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Next, let’s pemmican it up. (6 words)
Winnipeg: Pemmican Publications Inc. and Saskatoon: Gabriel Dumont Institute, 2001. (10 words)
Similarly, in camp, people ate pemmican only when other food was scarce. (12 words)
The things that really separated Indigenous pemmican from mass-produced European stuff, per Anthony, was the gentle drying of meat, use of berries for flavor, and the absolute caution never to burn the animal fat. (35 words)
In comparison, pemmican is a meat-based food that is nutritionally complete but is composed of dry meat fibers and fat in a 1:1 ratio by weight. (28 words)
The right path leads across the water to Jacob’s place, while the left path leads up to Pemmican Trailhead. (20 words)
Example sentences (9)
The pemmican mixture was placed into leather bags, sewn up and loaded on a Travois.
The right path leads across the water to Jacob’s place, while the left path leads up to Pemmican Trailhead.
Next, let’s pemmican it up.
The things that really separated Indigenous pemmican from mass-produced European stuff, per Anthony, was the gentle drying of meat, use of berries for flavor, and the absolute caution never to burn the animal fat.
In comparison, pemmican is a meat-based food that is nutritionally complete but is composed of dry meat fibers and fat in a 1:1 ratio by weight.
Like an ass I mixed a small spoonful of curry powder with my melted pemmican – it gave me violent indigestion.
Similarly, in camp, people ate pemmican only when other food was scarce.
Traders ate pemmican sliced and dipped in honey, which they called Indian bread.
Winnipeg: Pemmican Publications Inc. and Saskatoon: Gabriel Dumont Institute, 2001.
Common combinations with pemmican
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- pemmican it 2×
- ate pemmican 2×