Example Sentences

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Much as it’s easy to retreat in despair, the lemurs, the giraffes, the sharks and wombats, and actual bats, need our help.

From Salon • Dec. 31, 2024

Dale Nimmo, an ecologist at Charles Sturt University in Australia, was asked to fact-check the rumors of hero wombats that spread during the fires.

From New York Times • Jun. 6, 2024

Koalas are iconic Australian marsupials, like wombats and kangaroos.

From Seattle Times • May 9, 2023

"They are a bit of an evolutionary intermediate between wombats and their more koala-like relatives," he told the BBC.

From BBC • Mar. 29, 2023

There were panthers and leopards, wolves, tigers and antelopes; monkeys and hedgehogs, wombats, mountain goats and giraffes; and an enormous group composed entirely of kittiwakes and vultures.

From "Mary Poppins" by P. L. Travers