Example sentences for: indigenous

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

  • Both the Sydney Morning Herald and the Age of Melbourne gave prominent coverage Monday to aboriginal leaders' plans to use the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games to bring global attention to the plight of indigenous Australians.

  • The Los Angeles Times 's top non-local story is the decision by 19 countries to form an alliance aimed at resisting the immersion of their indigenous cultures in a rising worldwide tide of U.S.-made movies, television and music.

  • But, in 1788, Captain Arthur Phillip landed at Botany Bay (near the present Sydney) with a mixed party of convicts and their military custodians and sought to use what little knowledge had been passed on to him of the indigenous inhabitants, their language, and the new land's flora and fauna.

  • With a mean annual temperature of 70 degrees below zero Fahrenheit and a surface that is 98 percent covered in ice, Antarctica has no indigenous inhabitants and very few native plants and animals.

  • As China’s leading indigenous religion, Daoism differs from Buddhism (transplanted from India) not so much in the architecture of its temples and the art of its statuary (these are often quite similar in style) as in its practices and beliefs.


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