headman

Example Sentences

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Heimonmi Shylla, headman of the hamlet with about 500 households and a deacon, says almost all residents are Presbyterian, Catholic or members of the Church of God.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 17, 2024

The village headman summoned her and said that by garlanding Nehru, she had become his bride.

From BBC • Dec. 13, 2023

The village is deemed "at risk" by Fiji's government and headman Josevata Nagausaukula contemplates a future in which children now honing their rugby skills have been shifted, with their families, to higher ground inland.

From Reuters • Jul. 25, 2022

The headman was a strikingly handsome, muscular man, wearing a beaded antelope hide tied over one shoulder, a pair of denim shorts and tire-tread sandals.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 9, 2018

No more than half an hour later he laid his pack down beside the wooden house of the village headman and turned to salute the little crowd that had gathered.

From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman