kangaroo

Example Sentences

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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

“Think how you’ll grieve for all you’ll leave behind,” she sings to a herd of otters, koalas, flamingos, giraffes, bunnies and kangaroos fleeing Oz for the safety of the Yellow Brick Underground Railroad.

From Los Angeles Times

“It is a kangaroo tribunal, presided over by an unelected government, whose purpose is to deliver a preordained guilty verdict and to discredit a political opponent,” she said.

From The Wall Street Journal

In her first interview with the BBC since she fled the country on 5 August 2024, she said her trial in absentia was a "farce" orchestrated by a "kangaroo court" controlled by political opponents.

From BBC

On plenty of other tours England have played warm-ups until the kangaroos come home and been subsequently hammered in the Tests.

From BBC