How to Use Australian in a Sentence

Australian

1 of 2 adjective
  • To make a distinctly Australian whisky, one rooted in his home city.
    Regan Stephens, Travel + Leisure, 25 Mar. 2024
  • Bennett still has his Australian pipeline, with four members of the roster from there.
    Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Nov. 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
  • Barbie went on to date a hip-hop-loving Australian boogie boarder named Blaine.
    Shannon Carlin, Time, 20 July 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
  • 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
  • Alice finds solace in the native plants and flowers growing in her Australian backyard.
    Sophia Scorziello, Variety, 6 June 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
  • 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
  • Noah Kahan makes a move on both main Australian charts with Stick Season and its title track.
    Lars Brandle, Billboard, 26 Jan. 2024
  • When Djokovic returned for the fall season and the Australian summer, Alcaraz was hurt.
    Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 4 June 2023
  • 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 Australian driver has sent out a huge message by beating Norris' lap record at Zandvoort.
    Saajan Jogia, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Aug. 2025
  • Helmed by Chef Dan Churchill, the menu showcases his Australian heritage and a plant-forward menu.
    Rana Good, Forbes, 30 Nov. 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Long-running pet series Lucky Dog is adding an Australian spinoff as part of a new weekend block on CBS.
    Dade Hayes, Deadline, 27 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Kelce's dad Ed said on Australian radio's The Jimmy & Nath Show with Emma.
    Sarah Jones, People.com, 31 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Off-screen, Blanchett has been married to Australian playwright Andrew Upton since 1997.
    Keith Langston, Peoplemag, 29 June 2023
  • That reputation rests heavily on Benjamin Cross, the Australian chef who serves as Aqua’s consultant chef.
    Lela London, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2025
  • The Australian actress has since appeared in movies like How to Be Single, Senior Year and Bride Hard.
    Emily Blackwood, People.com, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Yang, who became an Australian citizen in 2002, has denied working as a spy for Australia or the United States.
    TIME, 5 Feb. 2024
  • Luckily, Australian skinks have evolved their own molecular armor against cobra venom—using the exact same sugar-blocking mechanism that cobras use to resist their own toxins.
    Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 28 Aug. 2025

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
  • 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
  • The first race of the 2026 season is the Australian Grand Prix in March.
    Morgan Korn, ABC News, 26 Aug. 2025
  • Madison Keys, the winner of the 2025 Australian Open, lost in the first round.
    Merlisa Lawrence Corbett, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
  • Three others were Britons, one was Irish, one Australian, one was a Polish citizen.
    Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2024
  • At the 2023 Australian Open, after a fourth-round loss, Coco Gauff was in tears.
    Rayna Reid Rayford, Essence, 23 Jan. 2024
  • Toohey would later join the Australian Basketball League instead of the Bulldogs.
    Shreyas Laddha, Kansas City Star, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Like all Grand Slam tournaments, the Australian Open runs for two weeks and attracts more than a million visitors.
    Lauren Mowery, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • 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 | [email protected], al, 10 Sep. 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 | [email protected], al, 17 Aug. 2023
  • In Brisbane ahead of the Australian Open, Osaka appeared in excellent form.
    Nick Remsen, Vogue, 12 Jan. 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
  • 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
  • At the age of 29, the Australian is still in his athletic prime, even if injuries have limited his availability and explosiveness.
    Nelson Espinal, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Aug. 2025
  • 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 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 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 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
  • Getty Images At the Australian Open, Medvedev showed his vulnerability again.
    Tim Ellis, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
  • As a teenager, Williams was infamously penalized by an umpire at the 1999 Australian Open for her choice to wear beaded braids after some fell onto the court.
    Leah Dolan, CNN Money, 26 Aug. 2025
  • The Australian Hollywood star will also front the brand’s Fall 2025 LifeWear magazine issue.
    Roxanne Robinson, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • The rapper's latest comments have led to calls for him to be replaced as the headline entertainer at the upcoming Australian Football League's Grand Final.
    Shania Russell, EW.com, 26 Aug. 2025
  • Following Snoop’s comments, there have been calls to cancel his performance at the Australian Football League finals on September 27.
    Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 25 Aug. 2025
  • McIlroy is currently scheduled to play the Australian Open, from December 4-7 at Royal Melbourne.
    Julio Cesar Valdera Morales, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Aug. 2025
  • The couple tied the knot in 1992, welcomed daughter Bindi in 1998 and had their son Robert five years later, according to the Australian Zoo.
    Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 26 Aug. 2025
  • Since winning the 2021 Australian Open, Osaka had trouble returning to the top after public challenges with her mental health and other difficulties.
    Sean Gregory, Time, 2 Sep. 2025
  • The favorable comparisons to internet sweepstakes cafés drawn throughout the prospectus dovetail with recent reporting by The Australian Financial Review.
    Daniel Wallach, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025

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