How to Use dingo in a Sentence

dingo

noun

• 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.
  — Steve Winter, 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.
  — 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
• These large, striped marsupials once lived across Australia, but as of around 2,000 years ago, they had been confined to the island of Tasmania—perhaps due to competition with dingoes and hunting by humans.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Sep. 2023
• Wildlife was plentiful — giant saltwater crocodiles, wallabies, dingoes, wild boar, and some 280 bird species live here.
  — Drew Kluska, Travel + Leisure, 25 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 3 Nov 2024