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How to use tiki in a sentence

11 example sentences · noun

Tiki means a carved talisman in humanoid form, common to the cultures of the Pacific Ocean. Example: “The Jungle Bird is a tiki cocktail.”

Examples of tiki by meaning

nounThe characteristic style of tiki bars.

  • The Jungle Bird is a tiki cocktail.

More sentences with tiki

  • A surprising number of tiki websites and thousands of other tiki-oriented pages are scattered over the internet.2018, Geoff Alexander, America Goes Hawaiian: The Influence of Pacific Island Culture on the Mainland, McFarland, →ISBN, page 121. From the entry tiki culture
  • “We brought tiki drinks.” “Oh.” “Tracy, turn loose that rum swizzle.” “Oh, Bill's back, and he's brought tiki drinks!2022 July 13, Dominic Dierkes, “The Cubic Lattice Crystallizer” (6:32 from the start), in Solar Opposites, season 3, episode 8, spoken by…. From the entry swizzle
  • The history of crab rangoon leads back to tiki culture.2020, Dan Nosowitz, “What the Heck is Crab Rangoon Anyway?”, in J. Kenji López-Alt, editor, The Best American Food Writing 2020, Houghton…. From the entry crab rangoon
  • It manifested as what we know as tiki culture.2020, Dan Nosowitz, “What the Heck is Crab Rangoon Anyway?”, in J. Kenji López-Alt, editor, The Best American Food Writing 2020, Houghton…. From the entry tiki culture
  • The soldiers looked up at him, with friendly grins and said things like, “Takin' the tiki tour, mate?2008, Allan Cole, Lucky in Cyprus, →ISBN. From the entry tiki tour
  • The dish was probably invented by Victor Bergeron, best known as the namesake founder of the Trader Vic's chains of tiki bars.2020, Dan Nosowitz, “What the Heck is Crab Rangoon Anyway?”, in J. Kenji López-Alt, editor, The Best American Food Writing 2020, Houghton…. From the entry tiki bar
  • The aim was to fly down, run the half, do a quick tiki tour of the company's salmon fishery and then fly home.2010, Gareth Brown, Kerre Woodham, Short Fat Chick to Marathon Runner, →ISBN. From the entry tiki tour
  • So, there I am on a popular retail website searching up tiki torches and seriously, I'm like, Why are all these tiki torches sold out? . . .2017 October 5, The Daily Show with Trevor Noah (Television), John Hodgman (actor). From the entry tiki torch
  • Difficult as it is to recollect today, tiki was a highbrow phenomenon: Trader Vic’s in the Washington, D.C., Hilton, for instance, became a famed venue for mid-century power lunches.2011 October 3, Wayne Curtis, “From Tiki to Tacky—and Back”, in The Atlantic. From the entry power lunch
  • Tiki Style was forged in the business of bars and restaurants and celebrated in backyard luaus and at theme parks like Disneyland and roadside attractions such as Tiki Gardens.2004, Otto von Stroheim, “Introduction”, in Tiki Art Now!: A Volcanic Eruption of Art, San Francisco, Calif.: Last Gasp of San Francisco…. From the entry Shangri-La

Meaning of tiki

  1. noun A carved talisman in humanoid form, common to the cultures of the Pacific Ocean.
  2. noun The characteristic style of tiki bars.

Full definition of tiki

Questions about tiki in a sentence

How do you use tiki in a sentence?
Tiki is used as a noun. For example: “The Jungle Bird is a tiki cocktail.”
What is a short sentence with tiki?
“The Jungle Bird is a tiki cocktail.”
What does tiki mean?
Tiki means a carved talisman in humanoid form, common to the cultures of the Pacific Ocean.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tiki (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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