Example sentences for: papua

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

  • Papua New Guinea's Post Courier announces that the PNG government, which depends on substantial foreign aid from Australia, is asking the Aussies for a six month dole advance.

  • About 300,000 people in Papua New Guinea are starving because of the '97 El Niño.

  • In Papua New Guinea [PNG] women hiss and boo at other women who step across rows of food spread on the ground at the marketplace, for women are “unclean” and must take proper steps to insure the purity of the food being handled.

  • Kina (Papua New Guinea) originated from shell money used for centuries by people along their coast; the cedi of Ghana means `small shell' after the former use of the cowrie shell for money.

  • The good news: We're doing a lot better than Papua New Guinea, where a 23 foot tsunami killed an estimated 3,000 people July 17 and left their corpses to be devoured by crocodiles.


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