How do you use Billabong in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like pool or puddle, plus the exact meaning.
Billabong meaning
An anabranch, backwater or oxbow lake that is temporarily cut off from the main river, especially one that is only filled with water during the rainy season and can sometimes dry up completely.
Using Billabong
- The main meaning on this page is: An anabranch, backwater or oxbow lake that is temporarily cut off from the main river, especially one that is only filled with water during the rainy season and can sometimes dry up completely.
- Useful related words include: pool, puddle, branch.
- In the example corpus, billabong often appears in combinations such as: the billabong, billabong creek, billabong pipe.
Context around Billabong
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 5 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 15 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Billabong
- In this selection, "billabong" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 22.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, nearby, little, market, creek, pipe and park stand out and add context to how "billabong" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a calm billabong framed by and at nearby billabong creek on. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "billabong" sits close to words such as aaronson, abai and abass, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with billabong
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Gloucester Farmers Market, Billabong Park, July 8, 9am. (8 words)
Oaktree already owns 19 per cent of Billabong. (8 words)
Down came a jumbuck to drink at that billabong. (9 words)
In the men’s Final for the Billabong Pipe Masters, two-time World Champion (HAW) went head-to-head with another two-time World Champion (BRA), beating him out by 0.67 points with a combined score of 11.77. (40 words)
The Billabong golf club took a drive on Sunday the 18th October to Kanchanaburi to play the very beautiful Grand Prix golf course at a cost of 1500 baht all in, which is an unbelievable price for such a course. (40 words)
The world’s best women surfers will descend on Maui in Hawaii for the Shiseido Maui Pro from November 25, followed by the Billabong Pipe Masters in Oahu from December 8 to 20. (33 words)
Example sentences (15)
After he was shot by police at nearby Billabong Creek on May 13, 1865, Gilbert's corpse was hauled back into Binalong where a death mask was cast, and an autopsy undertaken.
Emergency services were called to the Hume Highway between Little Billabong and Kyeamba Gap about 10.10am following reports a vehicle had caught on fire.
Gloucester Farmers Market, Billabong Park, July 8, 9am.
Billabong Creek at Parkes flooded to levels never seen before on November 14 2022, inundating hundreds of properties and homes.
She's so far appeared in titles like "Babylon," "Hawaii Five-0" and "The Walking Dead," and she's modeled for brands like Billabong, Sephora, and Abercrombie and Fitch.
A tall sandstone structure of compounded red dirt overlooks a calm billabong, framed by red lilies and vibrant green reeds hiding ancient reptiles below the surface.
At the Billabong Backyard bar this Saturday 24th there will be a sausage sizzle while the AFL grand final is playing.
Dakine sold to Billabong in 2008 and later spun out from that company to private investment firms.
In the men’s Final for the Billabong Pipe Masters, two-time World Champion (HAW) went head-to-head with another two-time World Champion (BRA), beating him out by 0.67 points with a combined score of 11.77.
The Billabong golf club took a drive on Sunday the 18th October to Kanchanaburi to play the very beautiful Grand Prix golf course at a cost of 1500 baht all in, which is an unbelievable price for such a course.
The world’s best women surfers will descend on Maui in Hawaii for the Shiseido Maui Pro from November 25, followed by the Billabong Pipe Masters in Oahu from December 8 to 20.
Oaktree already owns 19 per cent of Billabong.
The racks are bursting with colorful surfwear from all the companies that came after Katin: Quiksilver, Roxy, Billabong.
Down came a jumbuck to drink at that billabong.
This is also apparently the only version that that uses "billabongs" instead of "billabong".
Common combinations with billabong
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the billabong 4×
- billabong creek 2×
- billabong pipe 2×
- of billabong 2×