Example sentences for: melbourne

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

  • As a footnote, and in illustration of the sense of Aboriginal humor which might have misled Cook, consider the Victorian Aboriginal word moomba , used since 1955 as the name of a Melbourne carnival and freely translated let's get together and have fun.

  • Melbourne's Age sees the new figures as denoting "bigger-than-expected tax cuts" in the future, a sentiment that dueled with a quotation from the minister of finance in the Morning Herald : "This Government is not in the business of looking for cuts."

  • By contrast, an editorial in the Age of Melbourne, Australia, said that the likelihood of disappointment with such ambitious efforts "is not sufficient reason not to take the risk.

  • The one omission I note in the Autralian material is Marcus Clarke's “Sketches of Melbourne Low Life.

  • --Slurred Off in Melbourne, Australia


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