Example sentences for: aboriginal

How can you use “aboriginal” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • And, third, as a matter of governmental policy, Aboriginal names for flora and fauna have been preferred.

  • So Wiradhuri words like corella and gang-gang , names for cockatoos, kookaburra , a kingfisher, boggi , a lizard, belah , a Casuarina, billabong anabranch, gilgai waterhole, and bondi , a club, became parts of everyday Australian English, as did the Kamilaroi words brolga , a crane, budgerigar , a small parrot, coolamon wooden vessel or basin, gundy , yet another word for hut, and towri country, the traditional territory of an Aboriginal people, the Yuwaalaraay words galah , a parrot, and gidgee , an acacia, and words common to Kamilaroi and Yuwaalaraay like the names of other species of acacia such as boree and mulga .

  • According to the Age 's story, "an Aboriginal 'embassy' will be set up in Sydney for the duration of the Olympics to lobby visiting VIPs and media."

  • Run continued to be used in this sense (as late as 1909), but station came increasingly to mean an establishment rather than an area and, in this application, to equate with mission station or a reserve set aside by a government agency (later native reserve, and later still Aboriginal reserve ).

  • And, in the absence of a memory of its British use, the Aboriginal, being to hand, seemed to some a possible source.


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