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• The teacher's pet was fairly high on the class totem pole.From the entry totem pole
• I determined to observe Bloomsbury—not the totem worshippers of professorialism, but the large-hearted visitors of colour.2013, Fellow Passenger, Geoffrey Household. From the entry professorialism
• Australian aborigines symbolically depict totems on stones called churinga or on wood used as bullroars.2004, H. Sidky, Perspectives on Culture: A Critical Introduction to Theory in Cultural Anthropology, Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice…. From the entry bullroar
• The Cumshewa totem poles were dark and colourless, the wood toneless from pouring rain.1941, Emily Carr, chapter 4, in Klee Wyck. From the entry toneless
• As to the tendency to divinise these totems, this arises no doubt partly out of question (2).1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., page 57. From the entry divinize
• Before entering a new territory, Aboriginal Australians would hold up a message stick carved with their group′s totem.2004, Diana Marshall, Aboriginal Australians, page 12. From the entry message stick
• The flowers are chrysanthemums, totem flowers of my birthmonth.1991 July, James Alan Gardner, “Shadow Album”, in Kim Mohan, editor, Amazing Stories, volume 66, number 3 (whole 560), Lake Geneva, Wis.…. From the entry birthmonth
• Some people maintained that she was "sung" because her family had killed or eaten the "meat" (totem) of another group.1977, A. K. Eckermann, Group Organisation and Identity. From the entry meat
• Every bird, animal fish, insect or plant of today was in the Dream Time a cultural hero, a totem founder.1959, Sidney Hobson Courtier, Death in Dream Time, page 43. From the entry Dream Time
• Now only a few hand-hewn cedar planks and roof beams remained, moss-grown and sagging—a few totem poles, greyed and split.1941, Emily Carr, chapter 18, in Klee Wyck. From the entry grey
• There the man sat, straight as a totem pole and as unwincing, while rain-squalls belabored his bare head and sweatered body.1932, Barrett Willoughby, “8, 1”, in Spawn of the North, New York: Grosset & Dunlap. From the entry unwincing
• In the first of a series of almost ceremonial deaths, one Indian rams his model T into an imitation totem pole.1923, Henry Robinson Luce, Briton Hadden, editors, Time. From the entry Model T
• This explanation of the clan totem harmonizes with the supposed effect of killing one of the totem species.1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 11, page 220. From the entry harmonize
• The granddaughter of the famed Kwagiulth carver Ellen Neel says the private sale of three totem poles created by her late grandmother "feels like ransom."2018 July 13, Chantelle Bellrichard, “Granddaughter of famed Kwagiulth carver questions private sale of totem poles”, in CBC News. From the entry Kwagiulth
• Although their work is mostly manual and considered the low end of the totem pole, the success of flight operations depends on it.1988, United States Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, Naval Historical Center, Naval aviation news, page 21. From the entry blue shirt
• It has a fine moustache and a chain around its neck from which hangs a stylised eagle, which may be the totem animal of the man's tribe.2008, Christoph Baumer, “Art in Stone and Men of Stone”, in Colin Boone, transl., Traces in the Desert: Journeys of Discovery across…. From the entry balbal
• Although he lay with some sense of security beneath a gidgee tree, his father's totem, he was brooding about how he could get rid of the pigeons.1997, Alexis Wright, Plains of Promise, in Heiss & Minter, Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, Allen & Unwin 2008, p. 186. From the entry gidgee
• The Wagogo think that if a person kills or eats the in effects animal which is the totem of his clan, he thereby endangers his relations, but not himself.1910, James George Frazer, Totemism and Exogamy. From the entry Wagogo
• The first totem pole at Royal Roads University has been named S’ael — the Sencoten word for harmony — and will stand in greeting to all for years to come.2015 October 13, Jeff Bell, “Totem a symbol of welcome and harmony at Royal Roads”, in Times Colonist. From the entry SENCOTEN
• A group, whether stationary or migratory, in the myths of the Dream-Time ( the Alcheringa ) always consists of persons of the same totem, with occasional visitors of other totems.1905, Andrew Lang, The Secret of the Totem, page 70. From the entry Dream-time

Meaning of totem

1. noun Any natural object or living creature that serves as an emblem of a tribe, clan or family; the representation of such an object or creature.
2. noun The clan whose kinship is defined in reference to such an object or creature.
3. noun A symbol or personification.

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Questions about totem in a sentence

How do you use totem in a sentence?

Totem is used as a noun. For example: “The teacher's pet was fairly high on the class totem pole.”

What is a short sentence with totem?

““She became a totem,” he added.”

What does totem mean?

Totem means any natural object or living creature that serves as an emblem of a tribe, clan or family; the representation of such an object or creature.