How to Use Australian in a Sentence

Australian

1 of 2 adjective
  • He’s already won the Australian and French Open this year.
    Jonathan X. Simmons, cleveland, 10 Sep. 2023
  • Mewis sat down on the field with Kerr, the captain of the Australian team, and gave her a hug to comfort her after the loss.
    Julia Moore, Peoplemag, 10 Nov. 2023
  • When Djokovic returned for the fall season and the Australian summer, Alcaraz was hurt.
    Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 4 June 2023
  • Drone footage captured by rangers shows dozens of tiger sharks feeding on the carcass of a humpback whale off the Australian coast.
    Bradford Betz, Fox News, 29 June 2023
  • Yet as much as the World Cup can do for Australian soccer, this moment is bigger than just one sport.
    Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2023
  • To make a distinctly Australian whisky, one rooted in his home city.
    Regan Stephens, Travel + Leisure, 25 Mar. 2024
  • Noah Kahan makes a move on both main Australian charts with Stick Season and its title track.
    Lars Brandle, Billboard, 26 Jan. 2024
  • The actress’s Australian shepherd Finn sports his own social media page, even featuring some shots of the pup on the set of The Dropout.
    Henry Chandonnet, Peoplemag, 5 Aug. 2023
  • Helmed by Chef Dan Churchill, the menu showcases his Australian heritage and a plant-forward menu.
    Rana Good, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Bennett still has his Australian pipeline, with four members of the roster from there.
    Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Doctors pulled a live, three-inch worm from a 64-year-old Australian woman’s brain last year, marking the first time the species has been found inside the brain of any mammal.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Aug. 2023
  • Fred Again has done it again, selling out all six of his Australian arena shows within hours of the tour announcement.
    Lars Brandle, Billboard, 29 Feb. 2024
  • So far, there’s no update on Sivan’s quest to find Hyunjin, but in the meantime, the Australian star has been teasing his first full-length album in five years.
    Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 15 June 2023
  • Barbie went on to date a hip-hop-loving Australian boogie boarder named Blaine.
    Shannon Carlin, Time, 20 July 2023
  • But the Australian airline Qantas might have just ended the debate on the best ways to reset your body’s clock while traveling.
    Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 June 2023
  • An Australian mom was convicted of killing her 4 babies.
    Rachel Pannett, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2023
  • An Australian mom who was convicted of killing her four babies has been pardoned after 20 years in jail.
    Kirsty Hatcher, Peoplemag, 5 June 2023
  • Your voice isn't super deep Men with more of a throaty growl tend to have worse-off sperm, according to a University of Western Australian study.
    Christa Sgobba, Men's Health, 28 Aug. 2023
  • Off-screen, Blanchett has been married to Australian playwright Andrew Upton since 1997.
    Keith Langston, Peoplemag, 29 June 2023
  • Alice finds solace in the native plants and flowers growing in her Australian backyard.
    Sophia Scorziello, Variety, 6 June 2023
  • For the Australian premiere of her new tennis movie Challengers, Z hit the carpet with her newly lightened hair in a tousled twist with soft curls pulled out to frame one side of her face.
    Kara Nesvig, Allure, 26 Mar. 2024
  • The issue was resolved when the Australian government made changes to the law resulting in Google and Meta striking deals with local news outlets.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 30 June 2023
  • Two more shipments came in May and June, and the syndicate was also linked to a December shipment, Australian police said.
    Nick Perry, ajc, 15 June 2023
  • Yang, who became an Australian citizen in 2002, has denied working as a spy for Australia or the United States.
    TIME, 5 Feb. 2024
  • The Candy Cane Lane actor started dating the Australian model in 2012, and the couple are often photographed hand-in-hand at red carpet events.
    Adam England, Peoplemag, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Osaka played an Australian Open warmup tourney in Brisbane, and won her first-round match before losing her next.
    Gerald Marzorati, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2024
  • Hummingbirds also love this Australian evergreen, which comes in upright or weeping forms and can be trained as a tree or shrub.
    Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 21 July 2023
  • The main hotel here is fenced off with barbed wire, but gold chandeliers flicker above Japanese, Australian and Taliban flags.
    Rick Noack, Washington Post, 15 June 2023
  • The Australian Government has detailed its top business trends for 2024, highlighting the focus areas for those businesses looking to get and stay ahead.
    Kansas City Star, 26 Mar. 2024
  • Asked when ball placement became a focus for him with his kicking, Taylor noted his extensive background as an Australian rules football player during his growth through that sport back in his hometown of Melbourne, Australia.
    Dan Wiederer, Chicago Tribune, 11 May 2024
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Australian

2 of 2 noun
  • In two seasons with the club, the Australian has started 34 games.
    Ryan Finley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Jan. 2024
  • The latter two sets both reached No. 3 on the Australian Albums chart.
    Xander Zellner, Billboard, 29 Nov. 2023
  • At the 2023 Australian Open, after a fourth-round loss, Coco Gauff was in tears.
    Rayna Reid Rayford, Essence, 23 Jan. 2024
  • So the Australian took off for six months, moved to London and got a job at a recording studio.
    Mesfin Fekadu, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Dec. 2023
  • The Australian, making her seventh start of the season, set a career high of 20 points.
    Chloe Peterson, The Indianapolis Star, 28 Aug. 2023
  • Nobody had done that on the way to an Australian Open final since Pete Sampras in 1995.
    John Pye, Los Angeles Times, 28 Jan. 2024
  • Djokovic has gone on to win two more major titles this year, at the Australian Open and French Open, to raise his career total to 23.
    Mark Heim | Mheim@al.com, al, 10 Sep. 2023
  • The circuit, which has hosted the Australian Grand Prix since 1996, is bumpy, and its grip changes throughout the weekend, while the side barriers are close to the track.
    Brad Spurgeon, Robb Report, 11 Mar. 2024
  • So the pressure was definitely there when the 22-year-old Australian made the jump to Formula 1 with McLaren.
    Michael Loré, Robb Report, 31 Oct. 2023
  • The Australian was on a road trip with some friends when Burnip saw Reichard’s social media post, realized the news and gave Reichard a call.
    Nick Alvarez | Nalvarez@al.com, al, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Toohey would later join the Australian Basketball League instead of the Bulldogs.
    Shreyas Laddha, Kansas City Star, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Three others were Britons, one was Irish, one Australian, one was a Polish citizen.
    Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2024
  • Below me, Australian Jack Robinson, who will go on to win the event, sits on the edge of the boat performing breathing exercises ahead of his heat.
    Jen Murphy, Robb Report, 10 Dec. 2023
  • Feder-bear Beanie Babies are on display during the Australian Open 2007.
    Korin Miller, Women's Health, 31 July 2023
  • Cameron Smith: The Australian, who is defending a major tournament title for the first time at the Open, is happy not to get too worked up about much of anything.
    Jin Yu Young, New York Times, 19 July 2023
  • Abramovic and Ulay lived with Australian Aboriginal people in the early 1980s.
    David Marchese David Marchese Illustration By Bráulio Amado, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2023
  • In a small town called Eden off the coast of southeastern Australian, orca pods would alert whalers and heard humpback whales that swam through these waters every year towards the Twofold Bay area.
    Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 9 Nov. 2023
  • The worm’s journey ended in the Australian National Wildlife Collection, where its head and tail are preserved, according to the study.
    Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 30 Aug. 2023
  • In Brisbane ahead of the Australian Open, Osaka appeared in excellent form.
    Nick Remsen, Vogue, 12 Jan. 2024
  • But the only natural predator of the leopard seal, according to the Australian Antarctic Program, is indeed the orca.
    Katie Liu, Discover Magazine, 28 Feb. 2024
  • The Australian didn’t know it, but within minutes, victory would seemingly be snatched away from him, all because of a computer glitch.
    Robert McMillan, WSJ, 12 Dec. 2023
  • Williams is currently on his Australian XXV tour, celebrating 25 years as a solo artist.
    Jennifer Hassan, Washington Post, 21 Nov. 2023
  • In a new interview with Australian Story, the celebrated actor spoke about his battle with non-Hodgkin blood cancer, which he was diagnosed with last year.
    Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 16 Oct. 2023
  • On another note, in 2020 at the Australian Open, Williams reminded us that a fun manicure isn’t reserved for fancy occasions– thanks to her rainbow-jeweled claws.
    Essence, 26 Sep. 2023
  • Sabalenka, 25, was the world’s most dominant player this year, a 6-footer with a cleaver of a forehand delivered with unnerving shrieks who reached at least the semifinals in all four Grand Slam tournaments and won the Australian Open.
    Sally Jenkins, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Sep. 2023
  • Researchers with the Australian National University came to this conclusion after using a two-pronged approach: mapping the ruins from the air and examining them up close on the ground.
    Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 18 Apr. 2024
  • The tennis phenom who beat Serena, spoke up about injustice and withdrew from the circuit following an open struggle with injuries and mental health returns to the Australian Open on Sunday.
    Boris Kachka, Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 2024
  • In 2017, the Australian Bureau of Statistics took the first step to recognise gender diversity, with the first Australian census with an option to identify as a gender other than male or female.
    Kimberly Truong, refinery29.com, 17 Dec. 2023
  • Earlier this year, Australian Vogue published an article about Hailey, who was interviewed by none other than her husband Justin.
    David Chiu, Peoplemag, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Gillespie says during a recent video chat from Los Angeles, speaking with an agreeable affectation that toes the line between Australian and American.
    Thomas Floyd, Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2023

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