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Example sentences for: aboriginal
How can you use “aboriginal” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
The population of the new territory is 85 percent Inuit, and in the view of the Globe and Mail , "This alone marks an important step forward in relations between native and non-native in this country, guaranteeing, for instance, that when federal, provincial and territorial leaders meet, there will always be someone speaking for an aboriginal majority somewhere in the country."
This comes after suggestions of an indigenous boycott of the games were rejected, in part because several aboriginal athletes, such as track star Cathy Freeman, are medal contenders, and after the Olympic organizing committee "did a back flip" and decided to fly the indigenous flag at official venues.
Rupert Murdoch's daily, the Australian, reported that Botany Bay, New South Wales, where Captain Cook landed in 1770 with the first white settlers from Britain, was to be renamed "to reflect its Aboriginal heritage."
Of these, hump is now the most commonly used, in the general sense of a hut or temporary dwelling, whether of Aboriginal or European provenance.
Your readers, treasuring punctilio the way we do, will have written you in hot numbers about the familiar solecism that slipped past author Bill Ramson and the copy editor who sits next to you: in Dharuk Words in English, XXIII, 1, 10], we find, Aboriginal language must have mitigated against borrowing.