kangaroo

Example Sentences

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Should I hop around New York City like a kangaroo?

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

"I hate losing, so that's my motivation," said Alcaraz, who plans to have a tattoo of a kangaroo to mark his achievement.

From Barron's • Feb. 2, 2026

Their results suggest that the metatarsals of all known giant kangaroo species were strong enough to tolerate the physical stresses associated with hopping.

From Science Daily • Jan. 23, 2026

It didn’t help that her husband—who’d known Hoxha when the two men were students together in Paris—was found guilty by a kangaroo court of plotting to overthrow the government.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 30, 2025

The yellow parts were so widely scattered that he doubted even a kangaroo could hop from one to the other.

From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart