Brumby is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Brumby in a sentence
Brumby meaning
A wild or feral horse.
Using Brumby
- The main meaning on this page is: A wild or feral horse.
- In the example corpus, brumby often appears in combinations such as: brumby who.
Context around Brumby
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 7 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 11 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Brumby
- In this selection, "brumby" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, mountains, mark, says, says, sustainability and aka stand out and add context to how "brumby" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include bart a brumby who had and brumby a male. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "brumby" sits close to words such as aadi, aakash and aayush, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with brumby
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Brumby, a male koala, makes his public debut at the Brookfield Zoo on June 18, 2024. (16 words)
Former leader Brumby, appointed Treasurer, was regarded as a major part of the government's success. (16 words)
The decision seems to have been on the recommendation of Brumby, who was concerned with the state's budgetary position. (20 words)
An injunction by the Snowy Mountains Brumby Sustainability & Management Group had blocked the plan to remove all wild horses from Nungar Plain, and to cut horse populations in two other priority management areas of Cooleman Plain and Kiandra Plain. (39 words)
Aussie-born Ireland star Mack Hansen has given an insight into a speech by the team’s coach Andy Farrell that the ex-Brumby says is the best he’s ever heard. (32 words)
Carey colors his antic, sidewinding prose with place names (“Lambing Flat,” “Footscray”), slang (“chook house,” “hoons”) and fauna (“currawong,” “brumby”) that use the fabric of language itself to evoke this 1950s Australia. (32 words)
Do these men of the mountains, defenders of the brumby (aka feral horses) ever consider it was their ancestors that dispossessed our First Nations people of ‘‘their’’ land? (28 words)
Example sentences (12)
Aussie-born Ireland star Mack Hansen has given an insight into a speech by the team’s coach Andy Farrell that the ex-Brumby says is the best he’s ever heard.
Brumby, a male koala, makes his public debut at the Brookfield Zoo on June 18, 2024.
Last week, the state government suspended its brumby re-homing program while an investigation takes place into the illegal knackery allegations.
An injunction by the Snowy Mountains Brumby Sustainability & Management Group had blocked the plan to remove all wild horses from Nungar Plain, and to cut horse populations in two other priority management areas of Cooleman Plain and Kiandra Plain.
Do these men of the mountains, defenders of the brumby (aka feral horses) ever consider it was their ancestors that dispossessed our First Nations people of ‘‘their’’ land?
Mark Brumby, a hospitality and leisure analyst at Langton Capital, predicted that five or six firms could collapse this week alone.
The only point of reference creditors have got is other operators out there and they have been going bust,” says Brumby.
Carey colors his antic, sidewinding prose with place names (“Lambing Flat,” “Footscray”), slang (“chook house,” “hoons”) and fauna (“currawong,” “brumby”) that use the fabric of language itself to evoke this 1950s Australia.
Hellyer was seconds away from ending his life when ‘Bart’, a brumby who had just been gelded, came up to him.
Bracks and his senior colleagues (particularly Brumby, who comes from Bendigo ) campaigned heavily in regional areas, accusing Kennett of ignoring regional communities.
Former leader Brumby, appointed Treasurer, was regarded as a major part of the government's success.
The decision seems to have been on the recommendation of Brumby, who was concerned with the state's budgetary position.
Common combinations with brumby
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: