How to Use dodo in a Sentence

dodo

noun
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  • Being the answer to the trivia question about the best player not to win a major has gone the way of the dodo.
    — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 May 2024
  • The enigmatic pop star has gone the way of the dodo bird.
    — Keyaira Boone, Essence, 3 June 2021
  • By any measure, vinyl records should have gone the way of the dodo.
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 4 July 2017
  • The mom-and-pop auto shop, in other words, is going the way of the dodo.
    — WIRED, 20 Oct. 2022
  • In coming days, weeks and months, the Pac-12 will plot a course to salvation … or go the way of the dodo.
    — oregonlive, 3 July 2022
  • But as the dodo’s habitat was destroyed, the bird died out.
    — Jeffrey Ball, Fortune, 24 Jan. 2018
  • This is why the fullback position has gone the way of the dodo bird for most teams.
    — John Owning, Dallas News, 8 July 2020
  • In-person interviews have gone the way of the dodo for now, too.
    — Amie Just | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 16 Aug. 2020
  • The last dodo was killed in 1681, according to Britannica.com.
    — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 31 Jan. 2023
  • Plastic shopping bags are going the way of the dodo in New York.
    — Ivan Pereira, ABC News, 28 Feb. 2020
  • Polemicists lament that cursive is going the way of the dodo.
    — Jennifer Schuessler, New York Times, 12 July 2018
  • We’ve been demoted to the likes of dinosaurs and dodo birds.
    — Orange County Register, 12 Feb. 2017
  • During the five years of the Rob Hennigan era, the Magic used a dodo bird.
    — Mike Bianchi, OrlandoSentinel.com, 27 Apr. 2018
  • But in the years since, the vast majority of these popular shows have gone the way of the dodo.
    — Washington Post, 9 July 2020
  • Question: What do the camel guys do while these two dodos drink Chardonnay and make out in a hot tub?
    — Anna Moeslein, Glamour, 25 June 2018
  • But the rest of vast Mauritia is as dead as the dodo, lost beneath the waves of the Indian Ocean.
    — Ken Jennings, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Feb. 2017
  • Social niceties are going the way of the dodo and landline telephone these days.
    — Annie Lane, oregonlive, 7 Aug. 2021
  • More than a dozen long-running car series are going the way of the dodo, Forbes reports.
    — William Axford, Houston Chronicle, 29 Dec. 2017
  • As was the case with the dodo, deforestation is still a real threat.
    — Nayanah Siva, Discover Magazine, 3 Aug. 2017
  • The two-state solution, if not dead and going the way of the dodo, still faces unimaginable long odds.
    — Aaron David Miller, CNN, 4 Jan. 2023
  • But if quantum physicists have their way, such weaknesses will soon go the way of the dodo.
    — Anil Ananthaswamy, Scientific American, 19 June 2019
  • The company is moving forward with plans to revive the the dodo.
    — Theara Coleman, The Week, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Despite the growth of online commerce, retail stores and shopping malls aren’t going the way of the dodo.
    — Stephen Moore, WSJ, 15 Dec. 2017
  • Once the nightmare begins, conversation goes the way of the dodo.
    — Peter Opaskar, Ars Technica, 20 May 2020
  • Five-year building plans have gone the way of dinosaurs, dodo birds and woolly mammoths.
    — Kevin Allen, USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2018
  • Vow even tried to synthesize nuggets from the extinct dodo bird, but lacked enough DNA to accomplish the task.
    — Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Discover Magazine, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Extinct flightless birds—the moa of New Zealand and the dodo—were favorites, along with the Yangtze River dolphin.
    — Amy Dockser Marcus, WSJ, 9 Oct. 2018
  • The Nacional, with its distinctive and celebrated flavor, seemed to be a thing of the past—the dodo bird of the chocolate world.
    — Heide Brandes, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Australians and Americans were least knowledgeable that a quarter of the world’s mammals could soon go the way of the dodo.
    — Erin Waite, National Geographic, 17 Sep. 2019
  • Given these risks, some aquatic spiders might go the way of the dodo before science gets a handle on them.
    — Amber Dance, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 May 2024

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