A tepee will hold from twelve to fifteen or even twenty individuals; several families, therefore, generally occupy one in common.
Several families of the nativs who were traveling up the river with a Numr.
Sometimes, if the house is a large one, several families live in it together, each family having its own corner, fireside, and utensils.
I took a guide from hence to shew me to Om Keis, which, I was told, was inhabited by several families.
It is now inhabited by several families of Kurds, who have their black goat hair tents pitched in the middle of the ruins.
Wherever such houses existed there is at least a presumption that they were occupied by several families, who formed a single household and practiced communism.
These explorers found the houses of the Indian tribes throughout the Columbia Valley occupied by several families, the smallest of them containing from twenty to forty persons, and the largest five hundred.
Carver, who visited an Ojibwa village in Wisconsin in 1767, makes it appear that each house was occupied by several families.
The territorial unit, called by us Local Group, although varying in its extent according to the locality, appears to consist usually of several families.
Do they belong to several families or only to one?
The Port Lincoln tribes seem to roam about in small parties of several families.
Three anal nervures are present in the hindwing in those families whose wings are well developed, but in several families of small moths the wings of both pairs are very narrow and pointed, and the neuration is consequently reduced.
A modification that has taken place in several families of butterflies is the reduction of the first pair of legs.
Besides this, he introduced me to several families, where I passed many very pleasant hours, and had the opportunity of inspecting some excellent collections of mussel-shells and insects.
Each hut contains only one room, from twenty to fifty feet long, and from ten to thirty feet broad, and is frequently occupied by several families at the same time.
On the other side of the stream, several families, who live in huts on the bank, subsist by renting the ferry.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "several families" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
