How to Use wallaby in a Sentence

wallaby

noun
  • Since then, the young wallaby has been in the care of Crikey!
    Gabrielle Chung, PEOPLE.com, 8 Oct. 2021
  • And, for the first time ever, there’s more than one set of wallabies.
    Steve Rubenstein, SFChronicle.com, 7 June 2019
  • The dish was as marvelous and strange to me as a wallaby or a kangaroo.
    Sam Sifton, New York Times, 8 June 2017
  • But three young red-necked wallabies aren’t quite ready to join their elders.
    Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 3 July 2018
  • Turns out Rocko, the still-neurotic wallaby, has a whole Beyhive of adoring fans, in and out of the movie.
    Nick Romano, EW.com, 16 July 2019
  • The Zoo The staff heads to Manhattan to rescue a wallaby living in an apartment in the first of two new episodes.
    Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2020
  • The zoo called off the search a week later for the tiny wallaby, which is believed to have been carried off by a predator.
    Chandra Fleming, Detroit Free Press, 23 May 2022
  • One morning, 50 wallabies were seen in the field, soaking up the morning sun.
    Damien Cave, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Aug. 2019
  • Ava, a wallaby at the Cincinnati Zoo, had a surprise in store: a baby joey inside of her pouch.
    Briana Rice, The Enquirer, 18 Mar. 2021
  • What happens when a wallaby named Rocko from Australia moves to the United States?
    Stacey Grant, Seventeen, 15 Sep. 2022
  • Kean later tweeted that at least one rock-wallaby has been seen munching on food from the drop.
    Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 13 Jan. 2020
  • Video posted on Facebook from The Agile Project's account shows some of the dead wallabies with milky white eyes.
    Ryan W. Miller, USA TODAY, 26 Aug. 2019
  • One image looks like a wallaby hopping away from the camera.
    Philip Kiefer, Popular Science, 2 Mar. 2021
  • Hidden on the edge of a cliff in Australia's Blue Mountains, tucked away in the woods, a wallaby has been painstakingly carved into rock.
    Jennifer Billock, Smithsonian, 23 June 2017
  • Hidden on the edge of a cliff in Australia's Blue Mountains, tucked away in the woods, a wallaby has been painstakingly carved into rock.
    Jennifer Billock, Smithsonian, 23 June 2017
  • Try your hand at dot painting, building fire with sticks or spear and boomerang throwing, and even feed a baby wallaby.
    Smithsonian, 7 Apr. 2017
  • Over five years of study, the bushland wallabies produced offspring right on cue, six weeks post-solstice.
    Babak Tafreshi, National Geographic, 3 Apr. 2019
  • The new addition to the zoo was announced Friday morning in a post that said 4-year-old wallaby Sprocket gave birth to her first joey.
    Miriam Marini, Detroit Free Press, 9 May 2022
  • At the Aussie Kingdom exhibit, a mother wallaby with a baby in the pouch is on display.
    Steve Rubenstein, SFChronicle.com, 7 June 2019
  • There's an unusual take on the wonder of motherhood with a wallaby joey who spends most of his time in his mother's pouch.
    Chip Reid, CBS News, 11 Apr. 2020
  • The hope is that this will be enough to keep rabbits, pigs and wallabies out, all of which chew on the reserve’s plant life and slow vegetation recovery.
    Rina Diane Caballar, Discover Magazine, 12 Nov. 2023
  • In 2013, a wallaby named Wall-e escaped his owner’s backyard in Grand Prairie and was caught after a good Samaritan put a leash on him.
    Dallas News, 11 Feb. 2023
  • The photo carousel also includes pictures of the dancers posing with wombats and wallabies.
    Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 23 Feb. 2024
  • In some cases, those few extra days could be a female wallaby’s only chance to couple up.
    Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Mar. 2020
  • Also under his care is veiled chameleon, toads, prairie dogs, a hedgehog, multiple dogs and a wallaby.
    Elizabeth Montgomery, The Arizona Republic, 29 Nov. 2020
  • Ava gave birth to another baby wallaby in May of 2020 named Pocket.
    Briana Rice, The Enquirer, 18 Mar. 2021
  • Haunting pictures of cute koalas, kangaroos and wallabies that have died en masse tear at our heartstrings.
    Justin Worland, Time, 9 Jan. 2020
  • Ager's group works to protect wallabies, sometimes seen as pests in northern Australia.
    Ryan W. Miller, USA TODAY, 26 Aug. 2019
  • Reports did not specify which species of wallaby was indulging its green thumb.
    National Geographic, 24 Feb. 2016
  • Periodical cicadas are unique to the United States, in the way that wallabies exist only in and near Australia.
    Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 7 May 2024

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