Example sentences for: queensland

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

  • But then an earlier life was revealed: from the 1840s, and in Queensland especially, jackeroo had been used of a white man who lived beyond the bounds of close settlement and had taken on some of the not so savoury connotations of frontiersman.

  • Australian Prime Minister John Howard came under strong attack both at home and in Asia for his failure to curb the political momentum of the racist, anti-Asian One Nation Party, which won nearly a quarter of the votes in elections in Queensland this weekend.

  • The Age also quoted Queensland Premier Rob Borbidge as saying that "the whole sorry industry has gotten a bit out of hand."

  • In Hong Kong Monday, the South China Morning Post ran its second editorial in a week about One Nation, observing the Queensland election result "says very worrying things" about Australia, with "deep implications" for its relations with Asia.

  • And when, in 1820, Phillip King landed at the Endeavour River, in the north of what is now Queensland, where Cook's glossary was obtained, he found that the local Aborigines did not recognize the word, using a name something like menuah instead.


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