Example sentences for: kylie

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

  • Simes discovered this glossary in 1989 among the papers of the Australian novelist Kylie Tennant at the National Library of Australia.

  • Kylie Kyles

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Certainly, it seems unlikely that someone would have to refer to her as “Kylie Minogue, the singer,” except for the benefit of the same people who need the reinforcement afforded by “Margaret Thatcher, the prime minister,” “George Bush, the president,” or “Elizabeth II, the queen,” as if to distinguish them from the local roofer, the itinerant hedge-trimmer, or the ocean liner.


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