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
  • This wallaby would be hoppy to grab it.
    — Marina Watts, PEOPLE, 31 Dec. 2025
  • The dish was as marvelous and strange to me as a wallaby or a kangaroo.
    — Sam Sifton, New York Times, 8 June 2017
  • 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
  • Be on the lookout for sea lions lolling on the rocks, as well as koalas, wallabies, and a host of shorebirds.
    — Christine Chitnis, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Aug. 2024
  • Reports did not specify which species of wallaby was indulging its green thumb.
    — National Geographic, 24 Feb. 2016
  • 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
  • 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
  • One morning, 50 wallabies were seen in the field, soaking up the morning sun.
    — Damien Cave, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Aug. 2019
  • 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
  • Mobs of kangaroos and wallabies are easy to spot lounging in open fields during golden hours.
    — Laura Kiniry, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Jan. 2026
  • The wallabies and deer were being kept in a garden used by the suspects and their young children, police said.
    — Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 2 July 2026
  • Haunting pictures of cute koalas, kangaroos and wallabies that have died en masse tear at our heartstrings.
    — Justin Worland, Time, 9 Jan. 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
  • Some of the dead wallabies have milky white eyes, hinting at possible poisoning.
    — Damien Cave, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Aug. 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
  • Ager's group works to protect wallabies, sometimes seen as pests in northern Australia.
    — Ryan W. Miller, USA TODAY, 26 Aug. 2019
  • Bags were also strong, with new messenger and briefcase shapes in grain leather, while footwear saw new lace-up wallabies and the sleek leather flip-flop.
    — Rhonda Richford, Footwear News, 29 June 2026
  • The photo carousel also includes pictures of the dancers posing with wombats and wallabies.
    — Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Highlights include tender wallaby tartare and stick-to-your-ribs chicken wings smothered in black pepper caramel.
    — Todd Plummer, Town & Country, 10 Dec. 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
  • Visitors can see everything from leopards and rhinos to mongoose and lizards here — there's even a few wallabies.
    — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 11 Aug. 2023
  • 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
  • The baby wallaby was estimated to be between 5 and 6 months old.
    — Miriam Marini, Detroit Free Press, 13 May 2022
  • What happens when a wallaby named Rocko from Australia moves to the United States?
    — Stacey Grant, Seventeen, 15 Sep. 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
  • On Mother's Day, the zoo shared a post highlighting its baby orangutan, bighorn sheep, wallaby and more.
    — Christa Swanson, CBS News, 11 May 2026
  • 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

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