Example sentences for: aborigines

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

  • The newspaper reported that "hundreds of thousands of Australians today formally apologised to the 'stolen generations' of Aborigines, but John Howard was not among them."

  • The wallaby and the wallaroo were, like the kangaroo, large marsupials which the Aborigines hunted; the koala was also a marsupial but arboreal in habit and sufficiently unique in appearance to have had the settlers liken it to a bear, a sloth, or a monkey in their naming of it; the wombat was a heavy, thickset marsupial sometimes known as a badger because of its burrowing habit.

  • Those who will die, says the paper, include Chinese prisoners, Australian aborigines, immigrant laborers in the Middle East, Eastern European peasants, and South Korean sweatshop workers.

  • These small, dark Melanesians are related in type to Australian aborigines and are confined today to the forests of the northern highlands.

  • Australian aborigines have long sought acknowledgment of the atrocities inflicted upon them.


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