Example sentences for: australian

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

  • This apparently originated because one of the reference questions involved these Australian marsupials, noted for their burrowing qualities.

  • Barry Humphries (also known for his alter ego Dame Edna Everage) is an Australian with a sharp ear for language.

  • The Australian National Dictionary was published in that year and, for the first time, it has been possible to assemble and describe the set of lexical innovations used in one particular semantic field, that is, the words and meanings of words that register perceptions and utilizations of the Australian environment.

  • Similarly, fine-feeling English-speaking visitors to the Locarno region will freeze with horror when they see the initials of the Ferrovie Autolinee Regionali Ticinesi--the Ticinese Regional Railways and Bus Services--brazenly displayed on the local buses, and I once heard an Australian murmur that he had never seen anything quite as big and blue as that in his own country.

  • And so we were back to square one and one of the more colorful words in Australian English had to suffer the indignity of having an uncertain origin.


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