How To Use Wombat In A Sentence
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So the extension of the term ‘marsupial’ is the set of all marsupials: kangaroos, wallabies, wombats, and so on.
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There is also a small, clumsy, inoffensive animal called the wombat, which is never found outside of these Australian regions.
Harper's Young People, March 2, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly
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In fact there is a great deal at Riversleigh that is more complex than just the fossils of koalas and wombats and kangaroos and other weird creatures.
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European red foxes contribute to spreading mange throughout the country as well, as at times they utilise wombat burrows for rest.
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The Tasmanians subsisted largely by hunting seals, red-necked wallabies (a close relative of the kangaroo), and wombats (a four-legged, furry marsupial).
In the Valley of the Shadow
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Koalas and wombats are probably each other's closest relatives.
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Aside from resisting the urge to reach out and skitch a 100kph ride behind a passing semi, I give my mtb a bit of extra purpose by transforming the verge beside the narrow crumbling sections of road into a personal bike lane, and where reasonable I stop to drag the larger roadkill off the thoroughfare - today it was a wombat.
Pull My Strings: The New Puppetry
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How dare you say the northern hairy nosed wombat isn't worth saving?
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And I thought it was all cuddly wombats, koalas and kookaburras.
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Amateur fossil hunters have helped to uncover the oldest known ancestor to kangaroos, koalas, possums, and wombats.
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XIII Trancus the outfitter was a wombat, overweight as were most of his kind.
The Time of the Transference
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During the Pleistocene, herds of giant wombats the size of a rhinoceros roamed the plains of southern Australia.
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It is also my first chance to see the wonderfully unique wildlife here; kangaroos, wallabies, wombats, pademelons, possums, and various unique birds.
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Central to the debate has been the demise of the Australian megafauna, including animals such as marsupial lions, hippopotamus-sized wombats and the 2m-tall giant kangaroo Procoptodon goliah.
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Hamsters would be added to the mailman's shoulder as would parrots, guinea pigs, terrapins and wombats.
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Of course Australia is best known for its marsupial mammals: several species of kangaroo and their smaller cousins, the wallabies; the sweet-faced rural-and urban-dwelling ring-tailed possum; and the chubby hairy-nosed wombat.
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Come winter though, wombats are not averse to a little basking in the sun.
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The wombat does not elicit quite the same sympathy among Australians as the more obviously lovable koala.
Times, Sunday Times
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The words are from Anti-D, the first single from the Wombats' latest album, This Modern Glitch, and describe in vivid detail the battle that frontman Matthew Murphy has had with depression, and the citalopram he was prescribed to treat it.
Wombats against depression
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Besides the chance of spotting a wombat, Girraween also is home to that ultimate mimic, the lyrebird, and the wonderful powerful owl, which eats whole possums and throws away their tails.
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The sward was pocked with wombats' holes!
Times, Sunday Times
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The skeleton of a very large Diprotodon, an extinct fossil marsupial somewhat resembling a wombat the size of a rhinoceros, had been discovered south of Karratha in the Pilbara region.
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So each species will probably carry a different profile but we have yet to look at various species such as kangaroos and wombats and others that come to mind immediately.
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MM: A wombat is an Australian marsupial that looks like a kind of rabbit, only slightly angrier and bigger.
Mike Ragogna: Jill Scott's Video Exclusive, Plus Chatting With The Wombats and The Postelles, and More
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Thousands of animals, including kangaroos, koalas, wombats and reptiles, are dead.
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Next, the area is sown with regnans and other native hardwood seeds, and any animals - wallabies, wombats, and possums - that might eat seedlings are fenced out, trapped, or shot.
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There are a variety of possums, early kangaroos, koalas, wombats and quolls, as well as marsupial groups that are now completely extinct.
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The wombats turned into a physical representation of something by Coltrane, then into cheese dip, and then into ten million Goofys and Plutos, allof them dressed up like cub scouts!
Mescaline Blues
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And all these animals lived there-big glider possums, pygmy possums, koalas, kangaroos and wallabies, wombats, platypus, just everything in the trees, on the ground and in the creeks.
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Oh well, we get the wallabies, devils and quolls, wombats, and then you get the wedge-tailed eagles and goshawks, and lots of owls and bats.
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Each day as we were walking we saw much wildlife including hooded plovers, pied oyster-catchers, Cape Barren geese, Bennetts wallabies and thrillingly for me, a wombat.
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While you're at it, call me a wombat, a cymbidium, or what Scrooge called Marley: "an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of an underdone potato.
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My heart is like a singing bird, when Torrington Square is a reef of coral perhaps and the fishes shoot in and out where your bedroom window used to be; or perhaps the forest will have reclaimed those pavements and the wombat and the ratel will be shuffling on soft, uncertain feet among the green undergrowth that will then tangle the area railings.
The Common Reader, Second Series
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Wombats and many reptiles burrowed underground.
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Scientists think an Ice Age marsupial similar to modern wombats was much larger than previously believed.
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Shut your fat gob, you nasty little pile of wombat's do's.
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McLellan may have been wet, bedraggled and muddied but she could still raise a big smile at the prospect of making that first underground sighting of a wombat, cosy and safe, far down in its den.
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Wombats are strictly herbivorous grazers; they have a simple stomach and a short, broad cecum.
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The online survey is quick and easy to fill out, and if you don't know your wallabies from your wombats there's a picture gallery to help you.
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It is also my first chance to see the wonderfully unique wildlife here; kangaroos, wallabies, wombats, pademelons, possums, and various unique birds.
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It is also my first chance to see the wonderfully unique wildlife here; kangaroos, wallabies, wombats, pademelons, possums, and various unique birds.
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So the extension of the term ‘marsupial’ is the set of all marsupials: kangaroos, wallabies, wombats, and so on.
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Maybe you would see koalas, wombats, echidnas, brush tail and ring tail possums and emus if you're lucky.
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Yes, "I was hit by a wombat" is in the passive voice (and properly so according to Pullum, if the wombat is a "newer and less established" element).
Archive 2009-04-01
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Maybe you would see koalas, wombats, echidnas, brush tail and ring tail possums and emus if you're lucky.
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There are a variety of possums, early kangaroos, koalas, wombats and quolls, as well as marsupial groups that are now completely extinct.
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Wood can also provide scratching posts for wombats and protects seeds and seedlings of other plants, which can then recolonise an area.
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(For the satisfaction of his patients, I may observe, parenthetically, that the skull and the "wombat" -- that last is a creature between a miniature pig and a very small badger -- were not precisely packed up with the sarsaparilla!)
The Caxtons — Complete
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During the Pleistocene, herds of giant wombats the size of a rhinoceros roamed the plains of southern Australia.
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So the extension of the term ‘marsupial’ is the set of all marsupials: kangaroos, wallabies, wombats, and so on.
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The online survey is quick and easy to fill out, and if you don't know your wallabies from your wombats there's a picture gallery to help you.
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Wombats (Vombatus ursinus tasmaniensis) are widespread on Tasmania, with a separate subspecies on Flinders Island, V.u. ursinus.
Tasmanian temperate forests
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There are a variety of possums, early kangaroos, koalas, wombats and quolls, as well as marsupial groups that are now completely extinct.
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It is also my first chance to see the wonderfully unique wildlife here; kangaroos, wallabies, wombats, pademelons, possums, and various unique birds.
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He has used a chart recorder wired up to flaps with microswitches at 21 burrow entrances in a warren to record wombat activity.
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So the extension of the term ‘marsupial’ is the set of all marsupials: kangaroos, wallabies, wombats, and so on.
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The mammals include a number of well-known animals such as the eastern grey kangaroo Macropus giganteus, the red-necked wallaby M. rufogriseus, wallaroo M. robustus, koala Phasocarctos cinereus and wombat Vombatus ursinus, the greater glider Petaurus volans, the squirrel glider P. norfolcensis, mountain brushtailed possum Trichosurus caninus; also the rarer spotted-tailed quoll Dasyurus maculatus (VU), long-nosed potoroo Potorous tridactylus (VU), yellow-bellied glider Petaurus australis and brush-tailed rock wallaby Petrogale penicillata (VU).
Greater Blue Mountains Area, Australia
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Like their koala cousins, wombats have a hardened layer over the muscles of their rump; a very hardened layer.
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It is home to possums, pelicans, the duck-billed platypus, the kookaburra, kangaroos and wombats, to name just those he found for us during our adventure into paradise.
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The pika and the bushytail woodrat and the northern water shrew found themselves stranded—just as the brown bandicoot and the wombat had been stranded, at about the same time, on those land-bridge islands between mainland Australia and Tasmania.
The Song of The Dodo
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I'm staring at a neat cubical wombat dropping, perched on the side of the path.
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Well Kayne's waistcoat was made out of several native Australian animals, possibly possum, wombat, kangaroo and wallaby pelts, all sewn together.
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Amateur fossil hunters have helped to uncover the oldest known ancestor to kangaroos, koalas, possums, and wombats.
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However, the slaver is impressed by his spirit and decides he shall be trained as a Tunnel Warrior for the upcoming war with the wombat-riding Warriors of Doom.
Getting momentum into Chapter 1
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I also stroked a wallaby/kangaroo/wallaroo - there were loads of them just wandering around freely amongst the visitors which I thought was great - and saw echidnas, emus, cassowaries, a dingo (looked like any other dog!), wombats, Tasmanian devils, quokkas (never heard of them), bilbies (likewise!), flying foxes (great big brown bats), and tiny penguins.
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See hungryhead for pictures of the cutest bleached blond surfie wombat you have ever seen.
Archive 2006-08-01
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weeble gorfer wombat whosis," which is pretty much what they hear no matter what you say.
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Walter Pater "gambolling," in the moonlight, on the velvet lawn of his own secluded Oxford garden, like a satin-pawed Wombat!
Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions
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But "I was hitting the the wombat" is not only active voice, but an image of strength and muscularity.
Hunting Down the False Passive
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The mammals include a number of well-known animals such as the eastern grey kangaroo Macropus giganteus, the red-necked wallaby M. rufogriseus, wallaroo M. robustus, koala Phasocarctos cinereus and wombat Vombatus ursinus, the greater glider Petaurus volans, the squirrel glider P. norfolcensis, mountain brushtailed possum Trichosurus caninus; also the rarer spotted-tailed quoll Dasyurus maculatus (VU), long-nosed potoroo Potorous tridactylus (VU), yellow-bellied glider Petaurus australis and brush-tailed rock wallaby Petrogale penicillata (VU).
Greater Blue Mountains Area, Australia
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Most diprotodonts have three pairs of incisors in their upper jaws, but this number is reduced to one pair in one family, the wombats.
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To the kangaroos and emus of the outback, I was able to add sightings of wallabies, a wombat, and an echidna.
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In their natural state wombats excavate large burrows where they will generally spend the day, coming out in the evening to feed.
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During the daytime we were taken to see animals that were indigenous to Australia - such as dingoes, wombats and koala bears.
Record-Searchlight Stories
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A long time ago, probably before the arrival of man, Queensland's Darling Downs was home to some big animals - two tonne wombats, giant kangaroos, goannas as long as buses and marsupial lions.
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On Terra these include kangaroos, wallabies, bandicoots, opossums, and wombats.
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On Terra these include kangaroos, wallabies, bandicoots, opossums, and wombats.
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The book starts out creamy, but really picks up around chapter three when Jig and Smudge encounter an angry were-wombat who wants to spelunk them both.
Mad Libs Reviewing
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Wombat Creek Winery is an independent privately owned company producing fine wine as an art.
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On Terra these include kangaroos, wallabies, bandicoots, opossums, and wombats.
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Like their koala cousins, wombats have a hardened layer over the muscles of their rump; a very hardened layer.
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Wroe's team recognized that for marsupials (like koalas, wombats, and kangaroos) brain size could be used to estimate overall body weight.
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As Gondwana broke up, the link was broken, and the Australasian marsupials evolved in isolation, giving rise to the modern groups of koalas, bandicoots, wombats, and kangaroos.
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A wombat foraged through the underscrub searching for roots.
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Marsupials, such as the opossums of the Americas and the kangaroos, koalas, and wombats of Australasia, generally give birth to tiny immature young which then complete their developments in a pouch.
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So do wombats, hyraxes, aye-ayes, and lagomorphs, to give a few examples chosen from modern mammals.
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But how can we make sense of Easter among the menagerie of cutesie animals from chocolate bilbies, wombats and rabbits to milk chocolate footballs and all kinds of eggs?
[easter] a post for you to skip over
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So this indicates to me that when we come across a wombat with mange we must look at why it has the mange.
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Australia once boasted a spectacular megafauna including giant wombats as big as grizzly bears and giant kangaroos.
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As Gondwana broke up, the link was broken, and the Australasian marsupials evolved in isolation, giving rise to the modern groups of koalas, bandicoots, wombats, and kangaroos.
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Maybe you would see koalas, wombats, echidnas, brush tail and ring tail possums and emus if you're lucky.
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Thousands of years ago, there were giant kangaroos, huge wombats and six-metre long goannas.
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Anst, here we have a wonderful beastie called a wombat which eats , roots and leaves… applies to male human species as well
Cape Fear: Cycling Fashion's Reign of Terror Continues
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There, fishermen sold the French more animals, including dwarf emus, a tame kangaroo and several more wombats, all of which arrived safely in France on March 24, 1804.