dodo

Example Sentences

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I came across exactly one ultra-rare single-zero roulette wheel on the Strip, which felt a little bit like uncovering the hutch of the last surviving dodo.

From Slate • Nov. 18, 2025

The Hall of Extinction and Hope analogizes manmade climate change and habitat destruction to a slow-moving asteroid that has already obliterated species such as the passenger pigeon, dodo and great auk.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2025

Patience, of course, is as rare as the dodo bird on the Govan Road.

From BBC • Jan. 23, 2025

Despite how resilient sharks may seem, though, they may not be able to dodge the fate of the dodo or the passenger pigeon.

From Salon • Jul. 21, 2024

The only thing that linked the dodo, Lord Lucan, the people on board the Mary Celeste and Salim was that they’d all disappeared.

From "The London Eye Mystery" by Siobhan Dowd