Yuma
a member of an American Indian people of Arizona.
the Yuman dialect of the Yuma Indians, mutually intelligible with the dialect of the Mohave Indians.
a city in SW Arizona, on the Colorado River.
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How to use Yuma in a sentence
Last month, Chief Patrol Agent Aaron Heitke told inewsource that the San Diego sector was receiving four to seven buses a day filled with about 50 people each from Yuma so they could be processed.
Migrants Ending Up in City Homeless Shelters Amid Border Surge | Lisa Halverstadt | October 18, 2022 | Voice of San DiegoHead to Yuma, which the Guinness Book of World Records has designated the world’s sunniest city, for a permit and an ATV rental.
While driving through 116-degree Yuma, Arizona, on a late-August road trip, when every other food item not in the cooler melted in the van, I was surprised to find my drinks floating in ice and chilly water.
The light gray line shows how much water flowed on the Colorado at Yuma.
Environment Report: Gómez and Jacobs on the Green New Deal, Climate Injustice and More | MacKenzie Elmer | October 12, 2020 | Voice of San DiegoThe first movie—3:10 to Yuma—starred Glenn Ford and came from a 1953 story that had appeared in Dime Western.
Elmore Leonard’s Rocky Road to Fame and Fortune | Mike Lupica | September 13, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
He pointed to Yuma, Ariz., as a prime example of where that partnership works.
U.S. Drug and Immigration Checkpoints Take Toll on Border Towns | Andrew Becker, G. W. Schulz | June 18, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST“They told me I was going to get deported,” Chang said of the border-patrol officers she encountered on the outskirts of Yuma.
Despite Obama’s Order, Deportation Looms for an Immigrant Dreamer | Allison Yarrow | June 23, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTOf the twenty trappers who had accompanied them across the plains from Fort Yuma, only seven remained.
Frank in the Mountains | Harry CastlemonTheir food is amole, bellota and pinole and their chiefs are called Mule and Yuma.
Your Yuma, who ran away, showed too much skill to be a servant.
A Prince of Anahuac | James A. PorterThe Yuma proper are large physically, and finely proportioned.
From these Yuma Indians I take the name for the group now under notice.
Opuscula | Robert Gordon Latham
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