How to Use wombat in a Sentence

wombat

noun

• What is thought to be the world’s oldest wombat turned 29 this week.
  — Douglas Main, Newsweek, 26 Aug. 2014
• It’s not uncommon to come across a wombat on the side of the road in Australia.
  — Doug Gimesy, National Geographic, 21 Aug. 2020
• In fact, the first wombat Small and her mother ever cared for died.
  — Doug Gimesy, National Geographic, 21 Aug. 2020
• In the mornings, the sound of wild birds and burrowing wombats became my alarm clock.
  — Catherine Ridha, Harper's BAZAAR, 21 Mar. 2018
• The letter is signed, in a different colored ink, by Virginia, as the three apes and the wombat.
  — Roxana Robinson, The New Yorker, 29 Jan. 2020
• This story has been corrected to reflect that the weight of Patrick the wombat is 40 kilograms, or 88 pounds.
  — Douglas Main, Newsweek, 26 Aug. 2014
• And there are the icons such as koalas, crocodiles, kangaroos and wombats.
  — Washington Post, 25 July 2019
• Has the entire country of Australia tripped on a garden hose or a wombat and tumbled into a vat of vegemite?
  — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2022
• To get to the bottom of the mystery, scientists dissected a wombat that had died after being hit by a car.
  — Tess Joosse, Science | AAAS, 27 Jan. 2021
• Some of the models look like hybrids—koalas crossed with wombats, say—that represent what could’ve been walking around with Noah thousands of years ago.
  — Oliver Whang, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2023
• Driving at night is not advised because of the risk of hitting stray emus, kangaroos, wombats or camels.
  — Damien Cave, New York Times, 24 Apr. 2017
• Scientists discovered that giant wombat-like creatures, the size of a black bear, roamed the Earth some 25 million years ago.
  — CNN, 28 June 2020
• On Wednesday Swift visited the Sydney Zoo with her backup dancers, who cuddled with koalas, wombats and more.
  — Melody Chiu, Peoplemag, 23 Feb. 2024
• Australians are still paying the price; there are more rabbits in the country today than wombats, more camels than kangaroos.
  — Amanda Foreman, WSJ, 1 Nov. 2018
• Areas of pale and white fur on the platypus, koala, bilby and Tasmanian devil glowed, as did the white quills and pouch skin of the short-beaked echidna and parts of the southern hairy-nosed wombat’s pale fur.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Oct. 2023
• Eurasia had rhinoceroses and cave hyenas, while Australia teemed with giant wombats and 7-foot-tall flightless birds.
  — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 31 July 2017
• Kangaroos hop along their veranda, and a wombat dug a burrow under their deck.
  — Washington Post, 8 Jan. 2020
• One evening, around the fire, one of the Varuna directors told us she knew a couple in the nearby Kanimbla Valley who fostered baby wombats and kangaroos.
  — Tishani Doshi, WSJ, 22 Jan. 2020
• We were taken by 4WD off the main track to some of the best locations for spotting possums, wombats and marsupials that are usually too shy to surface.
  — Catherine Ridha, Harper's BAZAAR, 21 Mar. 2018
• The fossil record also shows there was once a flesh-eating kangaroo called the Procoptodon goliah that was taller than a human, as well as a giant wombat that weighed as much as two tons.
  — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 25 Feb. 2022
• Tigers and penguins are known for projectile excretion that shoots out a fire hose, whereas wombats poop in cubes, sloths only poop once a month, and some wood-boring clams use poop chimneys to build a home.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 28 Feb. 2023
• Rather than posting selfies with wombats at the zoo, players shared images of rescue workers cradling burned and thirsty animals, along with links for relief efforts.
  — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2020
• Some Phuds referred to these interlopers as wombats, and would issue wombat alerts if any were sighted entering the building.
  — New York Times, 13 Apr. 2018
• Australia is full of cute animals—wombats, bandicoots, potoroos, echidnas, wallabies, platypuses, quokkas and koalas just to name a few.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 16 Mar. 2018
• There were enormous hairy wombats called Diprotodons that weighed over two tons, towering flightless birds called Genyornis, and Macropus titan, a nine-foot-tall kangaroo.
  — David Maurice Smith, Smithsonian, 23 Aug. 2019
• For something entirely different, stop into the Healesville Sanctuary, which provides refuge for local wildlife – like kangaroos, dingos, wombats and the like.
  — Claire Volkman, Vogue, 22 June 2017
• Other large species like Diprotodon, a giant wombat, and Megalania, the largest terrestrial lizard ever, were also disappearing.
  — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 27 Oct. 2023
• Most modern marsupials are pretty cute and cuddly—koalas, kangaroos, wallabies, wombats, sugar gliders and even some types of possums are pretty sweet.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 11 Dec. 2017
• Kangaroos, wombats and giant herbivores called diprotodontids browsed on a variety of shrubby plants, including saltbush.
  — Brian Switek, Smithsonian, 26 Jan. 2017
• Kangaroos, wombats and giant herbivores called diprotodontids browsed on a variety of shrubby plants, including saltbush.
  — Brian Switek, Smithsonian, 26 Jan. 2017

Last Updated: 28 Oct 2024