How to Use dingo in a Sentence

dingo

noun

• Wildlife was plentiful — giant saltwater crocodiles, wallabies, dingoes, wild boar, and some 280 bird species live here.
  — Drew Kluska, Travel + Leisure, 25 Nov. 2023
• But the dingoes in the Tanami didn’t just scavenge scraps.
  — Quanta Magazine, 23 Jan. 2018
• The dingo arrived from Southeast Asia within the last 4,000 years.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 8 Aug. 2010
• Now, one of the central figures in the case — in which a dingo, a type of wild dog found in Australia, was found to have killed the couple’s nine-week-old baby girl — has died.
  — Niraj Chokshi, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2017
• Thus, the government spent millions to make the fence bigger and protect the precious fertile land against dingoes.
  — Sophie Weiner, Popular Mechanics, 6 Jan. 2018
• Only one dingo ran from the audio recording of gunshots.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Oct. 2020
• With thick brushstrokes, Ms. Harricks summons the sere land and low trees of the Australian bush, the unseen moon turning the ground almost white as the dingo hunts for a rabbit to feed her pups.
  — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 11 Jan. 2019
• The winner: Sandy Maliki, a pure-bred Australian desert dingo.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 17 Apr. 2017
• Most of India’s street dogs are about two feet tall, short-haired, curly-tailed, trim but not scrawny, and descended from an ancient breed related to the Australian dingo.
  — Jeffrey Gettleman, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2017
• In Australia, Aborigines kept dingo pups that slept inside their huts.
  — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 20 Nov. 2022
• When approached by predators, which include foxes, dogs, cats and dingoes, echidnas curl up into a spiky ball that’s painful to attack.
  — Carolyn Hagler, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 June 2023
• The New Guinea highland wild dog is thought to have left mainland Asia in the company of humans and then returned to the wild before trekking across a land bridge to Australia and there evolving into the dingo.
  — Richard Pallardy, Discover Magazine, 3 Nov. 2021
• After several weeks, the results came back and revealed that Wandi is a purebred dingo.
  — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 4 Nov. 2019
• Genetically, the wild highland singing dog, the captive singing dogs and the Australian dingo are nearly identical, the study found.
  — al, 28 Dec. 2020
• Koalas, in their native habitat of Australia, often fall prey to dingoes and other wild animals, but never a cougar.
  — National Geographic, 10 Mar. 2016
• Koalas, in their native habitat of Australia, often fall prey to dingoes and other wild animals, but never a cougar.
  — Steve Winter, National Geographic, 10 Mar. 2016
• Or maybe there were two domestications of dogs, and the dingo would be related to the Chinese wolf while the basenji was related to the Croatian wolf.
  — Ariel Bleicher, Quanta Magazine, 20 Apr. 2017
• This news was met with delight, reports CNN, since dingos are considered to be a vulnerable species.
  — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 4 Nov. 2019
• The Guardian also suggests that changing climate and the introduction of the dingo may have also played roles in the devil’s extinction in Australia.
  — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Oct. 2020
• Roughly 2,000 years ago, the pouched predator disappeared from Papua New Guinea and Australia, perhaps due to competition from the dingo.
  — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 June 2020
• Others persisted in an intermediate state, as in the case of the New Guinea highland wild dog and its likely descendant, the dingo.
  — Richard Pallardy, Discover Magazine, 3 Nov. 2021
• The institute was founded in the 1980s following the notorious case of Lindy Chamberlain, who said that a dingo had made off with her baby.
  — Rachel Pannett, WSJ, 30 Sep. 2020
• An image provided by the department showed an unnamed New South Wales woman, 29, laying down next to a pack of sleeping dingo pups.
  — Kathleen Magramo, CNN, 21 July 2023
• But on the opposite side, there was just one dingo with some 3,200 kangaroos happily hopping about, unchecked by pesky predators.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 15 May 2017
• But on the opposite side, there was just one dingo with some 3,200 kangaroos happily hopping about, unchecked by pesky predators.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 15 May 2017
• The only top predator left, the Australian wild dog, or dingo (photograph), is under threat from humans because of its predilection for eating sheep.
  — Erin Biba, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2017
• Both the wild dogs and the captive singing dogs are close relatives of the Australian dingo, and relatively distant relatives of domestic dogs.
  — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Sep. 2020
• Today, with the wild population thought to have gone extinct decades ago, the songs of these secretive canines—close cousins of the Australian dingo—are heard only by zoogoers.
  — Michael Price, Science | AAAS, 31 Aug. 2020
• Here in Australia, families with kids regularly camp in the bush where there are feral pigs, dingoes and several species of snakes more venomous than a rattlesnake.
  — Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2017
• His dog, Ginger, a 3-year-old American dingo, started whining.
  — Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 7 Sep 2024