How to Use hogan in a Sentence

hogan

noun
  • Dandy says that the hogan will serve as a refuge for students to keep them focused.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 20 Dec. 2021
  • The hogan stays naturally cool in the summer and, thanks to a wood stove, warm enough in the winter.
    Megan Michelson, Outside Online, 15 Feb. 2021
  • Danielle Nelson holds her niece in the doorway of her family's modern hogan.
    Kiliii Yüyan, Travel + Leisure, 26 Nov. 2020
  • Bikes, toys, trash, and a basketball hoop sit outside the hogan – a traditional one-room Navajo home, the door facing the rising sun to the east.
    Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Apr. 2022
  • All styles and sizes, from a cozy one bedroom to a large hogan-style cabin that can sleep 16 people, are hidden away on 13 secluded acres.
    Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 24 May 2022
  • About 20 members of his family lined up outside their hogan, a traditional dwelling, to pay respects through the screen.
    USA Today, 21 Oct. 2020
  • During the ceremony, an open fire pit had been burning inside the hogan, according to KOAT.
    Helen Murphy, PEOPLE.com, 5 Nov. 2019
  • Raynelle Hoskie recently was hauling water for her six children and her in-laws who live next door in a small traditional Navajo home, or hogan.
    azcentral, 12 May 2020
  • Siblings sleep in their cradleboards for a quiet moment inside their family's hogan on the Navajo Nation.
    Kiliii Yüyan, Travel + Leisure, 26 Nov. 2020
  • The family’s farm plot and hogan are now several hundred feet under Lake Powell, along with tens of thousands of cultural sites and burials.
    Zak Podmore, The Salt Lake Tribune, 24 Oct. 2022

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