Example sentences for: boomerang

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

  • The Clintons' Boomerang Politics

  • Their swept-wing and delta-wing designs were sharp yet curvy--a quality that was abstracted into the parabolic, boomerang shapes that started to turn up on objects such as ballpoint pens and surfaces such as Formica.

  • Bûmeran `boomerang' is the dumped lover who incessantly keeps returning, and morumon `mormon' is the active high-schooler with multiple girlfriends.

  • And there are local names for weapons, like weet-weet , a Victorian missile used both as a weapon and as a toy, -wirra , a South Australian club, and kylie , a West Australian boomerang.

  • There are also words representative of other areas of Aboriginal life, such as boylya cleverman or wise elder, gnamma waterhole, kylie boomerang, miamia dwelling, monaych , originally the name of a cockatoo and by transference a police officer, nyoongar Aboriginal person, wagyl , the mythical rainbow serpent, wilgie , a red ochre used to paint the body on ceremonial occasions, and wongi , a word for an Aboriginal person, originally used around Kalgoorlie.


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