How do you use the word "aboriginal" in a sentence?

Q: How do you use the word "aboriginal" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "aboriginal": Among the wind instruments, the aboriginal didgeridoo made of eucalyptus was his favorite. An aboriginal footballer was racially vilified by a member of the opposing team.

Aboriginal

/ˌæb.əˈɹɪd͡ʒ.n̩.l̩/

Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

adjFirst according to historical or scientific records; original; indigenous; primitive.

adjLiving in a land before colonization by foreigners.

Sentence Examples

Among the wind instruments, the aboriginal didgeridoo made of eucalyptus was his favorite.

An aboriginal footballer was racially vilified by a member of the opposing team.

I have the body of an original aboriginal.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

native primal aborigine

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

The museum displayed ancient tools used by the ____ people of the region.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

The museum has a large collection of ____ art from Australia.

Word Origin & History

See Aboriginal.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"Green in the Church-yard, beautiful and green; / […] / And mantled o'er with aboriginal turf / And everlasting flowers." — 1814, William Wordsworth, The Excursion, Longman et al., page 277:

"Tashtego's long, lean, sable hair, his high cheek bones, and black rounding eyes— […] all this sufficiently proclaimed him an inheritor of the unvitiated blood of those proud warrior hunters, who, in quest of the great New England moose, had scoured, bow in hand, the aboriginal forests of the main." — 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “Knights and Squires”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 131:

"Where else but from Nantucket did those aboriginal whalemen, the Red-Men, first sally out in canoes to give chase to the Leviathan?" — 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chapter 2:

"Had a vast knowledge of the aboriginal tribes; was, in spite of his juniority, the greatest authority on the aboriginal Gullals." — 1889, Rudyard Kipling, “The Education of Otis Yeere”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 37:

"It may be welldoubted whether this frog is an aboriginal of these islands." — 1839, Charles Darwin, Journal of researches into the natural history and geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage of H. M. S. Beagle:

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