Example sentences for: kangaroo

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

  • I'm with you on "MacArthur Park"; I'm with you on "Crimson and Clover"; but "Convoy" is one of those songs, like "The Battle of New Orleans," "Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport," "Please Mister Custer," and Walter Brennan's unforgettable talking rendition of "The Epic Ride of John H. Glenn" (it's on the flip side of "Old Rivers"), that I'm just going to give a pass to.

  • Perhaps such curiosities will make the book a collector's item, but whoever wrote the text for it at Kangaroo ought to be relegated to the outback.

  • That admonition applies also to the blurb on the back cover, which, presumably, was composed by somebody at Kangaroo Press but not submitted to Rose for approval.

  • 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.

  • The Great South Land was to prove extraordinarily rich in new species, some of which, like the kangaroo, had an irresistible novelty about them; at the same time they were as numerous as sheep in England and as useful to man.


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