billabong
noun
bil·la·bong
ˈbi-lə-ˌbȯŋ 
-ˌbäŋ
1
Australia
a
: a blind channel leading out from a river
b
: a usually dry streambed that is filled seasonally
2
Australia
: a backwater forming a stagnant pool
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Examples of billabong in a Sentence
taking a break from our trek through the outback, we bathed our tired feet in the still waters of a billabong
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Sonia Namarnyilk layered three stencils to print complex patterns of mermaid-like water spirits, their fluid, bright orange undulations interspersed with playful turtles and rippling billabong plants.
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Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2022
Fifteen million years ago, a river carved through the jungle, leaving an oxbow lake (known as a billabong in Australia) in its wake at McGraths Flat.
—New York Times, 7 Jan. 2022
As iron-rich runoff from nearby basalt mountains seeped into the billabong, the pool’s low pH caused the iron to precipitate and encase the organic material.
—New York Times, 7 Jan. 2022
The plants and creatures were fossilized when iron-rich groundwater drained into a billabong, or water hole.
—Katie Hunt, CNN, 7 Jan. 2022
Recreation in the summer shrinks to barbecues, swimming in the billabong, and drinking stubbies, or bottles of beer, on Big Red under the stars.
—Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore, New York Times, 1 Aug. 2016
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Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2022
Fifteen million years ago, a river carved through the jungle, leaving an oxbow lake (known as a billabong in Australia) in its wake at McGraths Flat.
—New York Times, 7 Jan. 2022
As iron-rich runoff from nearby basalt mountains seeped into the billabong, the pool’s low pH caused the iron to precipitate and encase the organic material.
—New York Times, 7 Jan. 2022
The plants and creatures were fossilized when iron-rich groundwater drained into a billabong, or water hole.
—Katie Hunt, CNN, 7 Jan. 2022
Recreation in the summer shrinks to barbecues, swimming in the billabong, and drinking stubbies, or bottles of beer, on Big Red under the stars.
—Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore, New York Times, 1 Aug. 2016
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“Billabong.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/billabong. Accessed 23 Dec. 2024.
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