Example sentences for: perth

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

  • Other loanwords repeat the Sydney pattern, striking or otherwise significant flora, fauna, and weapons being named: so there is the Tasmanian boobialla , a fruit-bearing Acacia, the Melburnian bullan bullan , a beautiful bird with a lyre-shaped tail, the Brisbane yungan gong, the Adelaide pinkie , a bilby or bandicoot, and the Perth quokka , a species of wallaby.

  • He moved his capital — along with the Stone of Destiny (on which Scottish kings were crowned) — to the sacred Pict site of Scone, close to Perth.

  • The extremes are provided by the nameless Tasmanian languages, which gave no more than three words to English, and Nyungar, the language spoken over quite a large area in the southwest of Western Australia but essentially the language of the site of Perth, which has enriched English with more than fifty loanwords.

  • I was raised on the story of her crushing disappointment over being only the salutatorian of her class at Perth Amboy High School, when she had been valedictorian of her junior high school class.

  • Gunyah , the Dharuk word for dwelling, is matched by the Melburnian quamby , a verb meaning lie down, camp, and also a noun meaning shelter, by the Brisbane humpy , the Adelaide wurley , and the Perth mia mia .


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