How to Use aboriginal in a Sentence

aboriginal

adjective

• No doubt, that’s how the loss of knotweed felt to aboriginal Americans, too.
  — Annalee Newitz, Ars Technica, 26 Jan. 2018
• Mills is black and from Australia with aboriginal roots.
  — Chris Fedor, cleveland.com, 27 Feb. 2018
• The proceeds made from this song went to the We Matter Campaign in effort to end aboriginal youth suicide.
  — Patrick Crowley, Billboard, 20 Mar. 2018
• The skull was discovered in 2014 by William Bates, a member of the local Aboriginal people, the Baakantji.
  — Robert Haidinger, National Geographic, 19 Sep. 2016
• As of this year, the Leaf River herd was the last to sustain sport hunting and aboriginal harvesting in Quebec.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 7 Oct. 2017
• Told in a mixture of aboriginal language and Chinese, the story tracks the aftermath of the death of a tribal elder.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 10 Feb. 2023
• His sisters are at a wedding, and his father is working the fields with his aboriginal farmhand.
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 Feb. 2023
• Many aboriginal leaders have come to view state treaties as more achievable than a federal one.
  — The Economist, 5 July 2018
• Once an ancient aboriginal trail, the path became a well-trodden byway for the workmen who built the Gilded Age mansions.
  — Amy Gamerman, WSJ, 24 May 2022
• Art around the world - Seniors are invited to learn a bit about Australia and create some Aboriginal dot paintings.
  — Joanne Berger Dumound/special To Cleveland.com., cleveland.com, 15 May 2017
• Her first oral argument came in a case concerning several coastal Alaskan tribes’ claims to aboriginal fishing and hunting rights in the wake of the Exxon Valdez spill.
  — Abe Streep, Outside Online, 1 May 2018
• There were wrinkles now (my forehead looked like an aboriginal map); my skin had started to crepe; and some kind of wattle had appeared under my chin.
  — John Lahr, Esquire, 16 June 2016
• Harris is a member of the Narragansett tribe, who are descendants of the aboriginal people of Rhode Island.
  — Jillian Eugenios, NBC News, 1 June 2022
• The people who can train this citizen’s army of fire-setters are aboriginal Australians.
  — Richard Schiffman, WSJ, 30 Sep. 2020
• Mesopotamia began to emerge in force around 3400 BC, but aboriginal civilization in Australia predates it by tens of thousands of years.
  — Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2021
• The island’s aboriginal, Gaelic, and French ancestry can still be felt.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 23 May 2018
• Yet many peoples who are now considered Indigenous don’t claim to be aboriginal—the Maasai among them.
  — Manvir Singh, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2023
• Kevin's dad is dressed as an Aboriginal with two similar looking men behind him.
  — Michael Sebastian, Esquire, 1 May 2017
• They martial ancient aboriginal knowledge and use modern tools like drones to monitor the reef’s changes in coral as well as inland bushfires.
  — Ian Palmer, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2022
• This year also marks the 50th anniversary of a referendum in which Australians voted to include Aboriginal people in the census for the first time.
  — Leanne Mirandilla, CNN, 2 July 2017
• Molly befriends an aboriginal fugitive, Yadaka (Rob Collins), who knows a few secrets about her past.
  — Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2022
• Many live along the line that separates north India from south, and regard themselves as the aboriginal inhabitants.
  — The Economist, 7 June 2018
• The inner sanctum of the soul, the irreducible and aboriginal seat of judgment about the objective truth of things and deeds, the freedom of conscience became even more cherished at the dawn of Christianity.
  — Matthew Mehan, WSJ, 9 Mar. 2018
• And their one-size-fits-all approach lacks the kind of intimate seasonal and place-based knowledge that guided aboriginal fire management over the centuries.
  — Richard Schiffman, WSJ, 30 Sep. 2020
• These languages are heard in aboriginal pockets of the northern territories and in the nooks and crannies of Toronto, where a resident is as likely to be foreign born as to be born in Canada.
  — National Geographic, 1 July 2016
• These languages are heard in aboriginal pockets of the northern territories and in the nooks and crannies of Toronto, where a resident is as likely to be foreign born as to be born in Canada.
  — National Geographic, 1 July 2016
• Among the patchwork of neighborhoods known as Sydney’s Inner West, Redfern is a singular area that’s home to an eclectic array of aboriginal street art.
  — Brandon Presser, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Oct. 2019
• That’s because as much as 99% of their aboriginal territory is managed by the Forest Service.
  — Peter Fimrite, SFChronicle.com, 11 Oct. 2020
• In recent years, Platt was known for earthy tableaux, often featuring Australian aboriginal women and printed on a fabric.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 6 Sep. 2019
• In 2022, Friedman is organizing a show of Australian aboriginal art, long delayed for lack of space, that will supplement work by two gallery artists with significant pieces on loan.
  — Sarah Medford, WSJ, 4 Mar. 2021

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024