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How to use wombat in a sentence

10 example sentences · noun

Wombat means a herbivorous, burrowing marsupial of the family Vombatidae, mainly found in southern and eastern Australia. Example: “And for my next trick, I will pull a wombat out of a duffel bag.”

More sentences with wombat

  • And for my next trick, I will pull a wombat out of a duffel bag.From the entry trick
  • There must be a whole mob of wombats living in here!2024, Tylissa Elisara, Wurrtoo: The Wombat Who Fell in Love with the Sky, Hachette Australia. From the entry mob
  • The decline of the northern hairy-nosed wombats has been largely human-related.2018 May 10, Christopher Knaus, The Guardian. From the entry northern hairy-nosed wombat
  • Soon we had a good view of the diprotodons, relatives of the present-day wombat but vastly larger.1993, Lyon Sprague De Camp, Rivers of Time, page 248. From the entry diprotodon
  • She passed a pond where a congregation of alligators and a wisdom of wombats engaged in a heated argument over economics.2017, Peggy A. Wheeler, The Splendid and Extraordinary Life of Beautimus Potamus. From the entry wisdom
  • Like other Australian marsupial taxa, wombats appear particularly susceptible to toxoplasmosis due to exposure to the coccidian parasite Toxoplasma gondii.2008, Larry Vogelnest, Rupert Woods, editors, Medicine of Australian Mammals, unnumbered page. From the entry toxoplasmosis
  • It would also be difficult to get to the bottom line accurately if a wisdom of wombats ate your working papers.2007 April 16, Tony Cooper, “Ebay is Unfair!”, in rec.collecting.coins (Usenet), retrieved 05 Sep 2022. From the entry wisdom
  • Here is what a wombat burrow may look like.2003, Mark Fox, Discovering Australian Animals, page 34. From the entry texta
  • Using coloured pencils or textas, colour in the wombat burrows.2003, Mark Fox, Discovering Australian Animals, page 34. From the entry texta
  • On they went, crawling and tottering across the dolerite mountains of the Central Highlands and scattering kangaroos and wombats that looked back at them from between the snow gums.2004, Nicholas Shakespeare, In Tasmania, Harvill Press, p. 78. From the entry snow gum

Meaning of wombat

  1. noun A herbivorous, burrowing marsupial of the family Vombatidae, mainly found in southern and eastern Australia.
  2. noun A slow and stupid person; a dullard.

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Questions about wombat in a sentence

How do you use wombat in a sentence?
Wombat is used as a noun. For example: “And for my next trick, I will pull a wombat out of a duffel bag.”
What is a short sentence with wombat?
“Here is what a wombat burrow may look like.”
What does wombat mean?
Wombat means a herbivorous, burrowing marsupial of the family Vombatidae, mainly found in southern and eastern Australia.

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