South Australia

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noun

a state in S Australia. 380,070 sq. mi. (984,380 sq. km). Capital: Adelaide.

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OTHER WORDS FROM South Australia

South Australian, adjective, noun

Words nearby South Australia

South Arabia, South Arabian, South Asia, South Atlantic Current, South Atlantic Ocean, South Australia, South Australian, South Ayrshire, South Bend, southbound, Southbridge

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How to use South Australia in a sentence

When I registered for the program in the fall of 2020, I was supposed to have been bikepacking across the outback of South Australia.
How Studying Witchcraft Changed My Relationship with the Outdoors|abarronian|October 31, 2021|Outside Online
As flies buzzed and crows circled and their supplies ran low, they waited for emails that would allow them to leave New South Wales and return to their home state of South Australia.
Unvaccinated should get priority for an effective early covid-19 treatment, some officials say|Hannah Knowles, Marisa Iati, Rachel Pannett, Annabelle Timsit|September 22, 2021|Washington Post
It was early January 2020, and Petrovsky, an immunologist, was at his vacation getaway in Keystone, Colorado, which is where he goes most years with his family to flee the searingly hot summers at home in South Australia.
Did the coronavirus leak from a lab? These scientists say we shouldn’t rule it out.|Niall Firth|March 18, 2021|MIT Technology Review
He did travel to China and Australia while the story was unfolding.
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He prepared operations south of Samarra and north of Baghdad.
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He was born in an apartment above the grocery store owned by his immigrant parents in South Jamaica, Queens.
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Still, for all of this, South Carolina is now represented in the U.S. Senate by Tim Scott, a Republican and an African-American.
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But South Koreans have a troubled history with American intervention in Korean markets.
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Descending the Alps to the east or south into Piedmont, a new world lies around and before you.
Glances at Europe|Horace Greeley
Then with your victorious legions you can march south and help drive the Yankee invaders from the land.
The Courier of the Ozarks|Byron A. Dunn
The Potato is planted very sparingly south of Piedmont, and not so commonly there as in Savoy.
Glances at Europe|Horace Greeley
If we can free this State of Yankees, we will accomplish more than your armies down south have.
The Courier of the Ozarks|Byron A. Dunn
Between South and North, the probabilities of a serious, and no very distant rupture, are strong and manifest.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846|Various

British Dictionary definitions for South Australia

South Australia

noun

a state of S central Australia, on the Great Australian Bight: generally arid, with the Great Victoria Desert in the west central part, the Lake Eyre basin in the northeast, and the Flinders Ranges, Murray River basin, and salt lakes in the southeast. Capital: Adelaide. Pop: 1 531 375 (2003 est). Area: 984 395 sq km 380 070 (sq miles)

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