How to Use wombat in a Sentence

wombat

noun
  • In watching a wombat swim in a pond.
    — Literary Hub, 28 Jan. 2026
  • What is thought to be the world’s oldest wombat turned 29 this week.
    — Douglas Main, Newsweek, 26 Aug. 2014
  • In fact, the first wombat Small and her mother ever cared for died.
    — Doug Gimesy, National Geographic, 21 Aug. 2020
  • In the video, the wombat's mother is seen tailing her from behind.
    — Taylor Ardrey, USA TODAY, 13 Mar. 2025
  • In the mornings, the sound of wild birds and burrowing wombats became my alarm clock.
    — Catherine Ridha, Harper's BAZAAR, 21 Mar. 2018
  • The northern hairy-nosed wombat is one of three wombat species, all found in Australia.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Sep. 2024
  • Looking ahead, the work to safeguard northern hairy-nosed wombats is far from finished.
    — Hanna Wickes, Miami Herald, 13 Feb. 2026
  • And there are the icons such as koalas, crocodiles, kangaroos and wombats.
    — Washington Post, 25 July 2019
  • For those 400 wombats, every step forward counts.
    — Hanna Wickes, Kansas City Star, 13 Feb. 2026
  • The northern hairy-nosed wombat was teetering on the very edge of extinction.
    — Hanna Wickes, Kansas City Star, 13 Feb. 2026
  • Driving at night is not advised because of the risk of hitting stray emus, kangaroos, wombats or camels.
    — Damien Cave, New York Times, 24 Apr. 2017
  • Kangaroos hop along their veranda, and a wombat dug a burrow under their deck.
    — Washington Post, 8 Jan. 2020
  • The letter is signed, in a different colored ink, by Virginia, as the three apes and the wombat.
    — Roxana Robinson, The New Yorker, 29 Jan. 2020
  • The northern hairy-nosed wombat’s story is one of dramatic decline over more than a century.
    — Hanna Wickes, Miami Herald, 13 Feb. 2026
  • To get to the bottom of the mystery, scientists dissected a wombat that had died after being hit by a car.
    — Tess Joosse, Science | AAAS, 27 Jan. 2021
  • Australians are still paying the price; there are more rabbits in the country today than wombats, more camels than kangaroos.
    — Amanda Foreman, WSJ, 1 Nov. 2018
  • Jones eventually released the distressed baby wombat, which hissed and screeched while in her arms, back onto the road, the video shows.
    — Peter Guo, NBC News, 13 Mar. 2025
  • Has the entire country of Australia tripped on a garden hose or a wombat and tumbled into a vat of vegemite?
    — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2022
  • As marsupials, female wombats carry their young in pouches for about six months after giving birth.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 June 2024
  • Some of the models look like hybrids—koalas crossed with wombats, say—that represent what could’ve been walking around with Noah thousands of years ago.
    — Oliver Whang, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2023
  • Eurasia had rhinoceroses and cave hyenas, while Australia teemed with giant wombats and 7-foot-tall flightless birds.
    — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 31 July 2017
  • The young wombat was filmed on two nights in June, according to video footage shared with the Miami Herald.
    — Hanna Wickes, Kansas City Star, 13 Feb. 2026
  • The pictures revealed that wombat burrows are a hub of animal activity.
    — Darren Incorvaia, New York Times, 6 June 2024
  • This story has been corrected to reflect that the weight of Patrick the wombat is 40 kilograms, or 88 pounds.
    — Douglas Main, Newsweek, 26 Aug. 2014
  • Take another animal that can actually fight back rather than stealing a baby wombat from its mother.
    — Raja Krishnamoorthi, Newsweek, 13 Mar. 2025
  • But the northern hairy-nosed wombat is a distinct and critically endangered species that stands apart from its more common relatives.
    — Hanna Wickes, Miami Herald, 13 Feb. 2026
  • For a species that once teetered on the very edge of extinction, every healthy young wombat caught on camera represents a quiet but powerful victory.
    — Hanna Wickes, Miami Herald, 13 Feb. 2026
  • Scientists discovered that giant wombat-like creatures, the size of a black bear, roamed the Earth some 25 million years ago.
    — CNN, 28 June 2020
  • Australia is full of cute animals—wombats, bandicoots, potoroos, echidnas, wallabies, platypuses, quokkas and koalas just to name a few.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 16 Mar. 2018
  • Some Phuds referred to these interlopers as wombats, and would issue wombat alerts if any were sighted entering the building.
    — New York Times, 13 Apr. 2018

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