dodo

Example Sentences

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Now if the last remaining hereditary peers play their cards right, they could endure another Labour prime minister and delay their destiny to go the way of the dodo.

From BBC • Mar. 13, 2026

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

As a subscriber to the Los Angeles Times for over 50 years, I must say that I’m sorry to see my Sports section go the way of the dodo bird.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 15, 2023

The point, however, is that if Homo sapiens were to go the way of the dinosaurs and the dodo, that would be no great loss from the TESCREAList point of view.

From Salon • Jun. 11, 2023

No doubt this was just as painful as it sounds; nowadays the pince-nez is as extinct as the dodo.

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood