How to Use austral in a Sentence

austral

adjective

• But in the austral spring, the rear of their bodies turn into sacks of egg or sperm.
  — Douglas Main, National Geographic, 17 Apr. 2019
• Adult whales socialize at both the Auckland and Campbell Islands during the austral winter.
  — Popular Science, 2 Nov. 2020
• The tree's large pine nuts are a favorite food of austral parakeets as well as the Indigenous Mapuche people of Chile and Argentina -- and both could help the evergreens survive.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 20 Aug. 2022
• Frederick Albert Cook, the physician aboard the Belgica, during the austral winter of 1898.
  — Julian Sancton, Time, 12 May 2021
• This being the tail end of austral summer, temperatures hovered just above freezing.
  — Christopher P. Baker, Travel + Leisure, 2 Mar. 2022
• The team arrived in Antarctica toward the end of the austral summer, when temperatures hover between 20 and 50 degrees Fahrenheit.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 11 May 2016
• Most leaders in Latin America had regarded the new virus as a faraway problem — one unlikely to raise havoc in the region during the austral summer — until the first case was diagnosed in Brazil in late February.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 25 Mar. 2020
• Tourism in Antarctica is booming, with visitor numbers this austral summer expected to rise by nearly 40 percent from last season.
  — Tom Wright-Piersanti, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2020
• Heard mainly during austral winter in the Southern Ocean, this ubiquitous sound has been recorded in Antarctic waters and contemporaneously off the Australian west coast.
  — Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 3 June 2016
• During the current austral summer, which runs from roughly November to March, visitor numbers to Antarctica are expected to rise by nearly 40 percent from the previous season.
  — Paige McClanahan, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2020
• End of an era The megaberg will likely not last through the austral summer, or the summer months in the Southern hemisphere.
  — Devika Rao, TheWeek, 14 Jan. 2026