How to Use austral in a Sentence

austral

adjective
  • But in the austral spring, the rear of their bodies turn into sacks of egg or sperm.
    — Douglas Main, National Geographic, 17 Apr. 2019
  • By March the brief austral summer was already drawing to a close.
    — Kate Wong, Scientific American, 13 Mar. 2023
  • This being the tail end of austral summer, temperatures hovered just above freezing.
    — Christopher P. Baker, Travel + Leisure, 2 Mar. 2022
  • End of an era The megaberg will likely not last through the austral summer, or the summer months in the Southern hemisphere.
    — Devika Rao, TheWeek, 14 Jan. 2026
  • Adult whales socialize at both the Auckland and Campbell Islands during the austral winter.
    — Popular Science, 2 Nov. 2020
  • Tourism in Antarctica is booming, with visitor numbers this austral summer expected to rise by nearly 40 percent from last season.
    — Tom Wright-Piersanti, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2020
  • The Antarctic cruising season runs from late November through March, which coincides with the continent’s austral summer.
    — Dan Fellner, The Arizona Republic, 5 Jan. 2024
  • The tree's large pine nuts are a favorite food of austral parakeets as well as the Indigenous Mapuche people of Chile and Argentina -- and both could help the evergreens survive.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 20 Aug. 2022
  • Frederick Albert Cook, the physician aboard the Belgica, during the austral winter of 1898.
    — Julian Sancton, Time, 12 May 2021
  • The team arrived in Antarctica toward the end of the austral summer, when temperatures hover between 20 and 50 degrees Fahrenheit.
    — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 11 May 2016
  • Heard mainly during austral winter in the Southern Ocean, this ubiquitous sound has been recorded in Antarctic waters and contemporaneously off the Australian west coast.
    — Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 3 June 2016
  • But this does mean Earth is closer to the sun in austral summer and farther in austral winter, so the corresponding plus-or-minus-five-degree-C shift can amplify seasons to be more extreme in the Southern Hemisphere.
    — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 30 June 2023
  • Most leaders in Latin America had regarded the new virus as a faraway problem — one unlikely to raise havoc in the region during the austral summer — until the first case was diagnosed in Brazil in late February.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 25 Mar. 2020
  • During the current austral summer, which runs from roughly November to March, visitor numbers to Antarctica are expected to rise by nearly 40 percent from the previous season.
    — Paige McClanahan, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2020

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