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

Humanity really could disappear — like the dodo and the dinosaurs — and the universe would carry on with hardly more than a shrug of indifference.

From Salon • Oct. 8, 2023

Yeah, so did the dodo bird, the passenger pigeon, Vanilla Ice...

From "Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie" by Jordan Sonnenblick