Example sentences for: pink-eye

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

  • The proprietorial use of the adjective Tasmanian — found in compounds like Tasmanian kingfish, Tasmanian pink-eye (a potato), Tasmanian scallop (the shellfish, not, as in New South Wales, a slice of fried potato), and Tasmanian red (an apple)—plays on an ostensible difference in the island produce, as does the much more audacious hijacking of Atlantic in Tasmanian Atlantic salmon (farmed Tasmanian salmon).

  • So the Aboriginal equivalent of the Creation is Dreamtime , itself a translation of alcheringa (an Aranda word), bark hut is preferred to gunyah or humpy, country to the Kamilaroi towri , and walkabout to the Nyungar pink-eye .


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