How to Use fodder in a Sentence

fodder

noun
  • His antics always make good fodder for the gossip columnists.
  • She often used her friends' problems as fodder for her novels.
  • Drake fans and haters alike will find plenty of fodder on For All the Dogs.
    Mosi Reeves, Rolling Stone, 6 Oct. 2023
  • The main source of fresh ring fodder is Enceladus’ plumes.
    Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Sep. 2024
  • Sturges would likely look around and see a lot of fodder for a good script.
    Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2023
  • There were headlines and talk-show fodder for weeks and weeks to come.
    Brad Biggs, Chicago Tribune, 25 Feb. 2025
  • This is the kind of self-aware fan fodder that, in lesser films, might feel tired.
    Stephanie Burt, The New Yorker, 14 June 2023
  • The video became fodder for an essay in the New York Times.
    Kate Gibson, CBS News, 15 June 2022
  • This will give the GOP fodder for its 2022 campaign ads.
    Howard Gleckman, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2021
  • That’s quite a trade-off — and great fodder for stories.
    Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 26 June 2024
  • The fodder are young athletes like Zhou whose Olympic dreams end with a nasal swab.
    Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Feb. 2022
  • Now everything is fodder for a fight to the last minute.
    Calvin Woodward, Chron, 6 Oct. 2021
  • This is not to say the photo fodder was lacking, though.
    Zachary Weiss, Vogue, 19 Oct. 2023
  • Just the crooked cops in this story would be fodder for a miniseries.
    Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2022
  • With the release of Starfield this week, Bacon_ has new fodder.
    Will Bedingfield, WIRED, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Come to think of it, that sounds like fodder for a good Jeopardy! question.
    Paul Grein, Billboard, 26 Sep. 2024
  • That stunt made good joke fodder for late-night host Stephen Colbert.
    oregonlive, 17 Feb. 2022
  • Those goat screams have become meme fodder and even made it onto the big screen.
    María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 12 May 2023
  • That’s the short story, but there has been plenty fodder for the pundits and talking heads.
    Mark Heim | Mheim@al.com, al, 19 May 2022
  • That’s a shame, because many of the ideas in The Gorge — about soldiers as pawns and the wide reach of the military — would have been good fodder for a nervy sci-fi.
    Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Feb. 2025
  • But with the gleaming white kitchen and the pool sparkling in the background, their labor makes for great Instagram fodder.
    Tori Latham, Robb Report, 7 July 2023
  • The debate over whether Favre took a dive in 2001 has generated much fodder over the years.
    Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 14 Mar. 2025
  • Any move Lopez makes that's even remotely cringey will be fodder for the vultures.
    USA TODAY, 25 Mar. 2024
  • As with many things in her life, Honk also became fodder for a film, titled, of course, Honk.
    Michael Granberry, Dallas News, 27 Sep. 2021
  • In comedy, the queen was the epitome of uptight and, as such, ready fodder for sight gags.
    John Jurgensen, WSJ, 9 Sep. 2022
  • Still, there was a time when internet memes used to be fodder for costumes.
    WIRED, 20 Oct. 2023
  • All of that means there's plenty of fodder for an Ars Live discussion.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 2 July 2024
  • Since the resolution of the case in late 2016, it’s been popular fodder for true-crime shows.
    Lawrence Specker | , al, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Her account often posts clips from conservative-media outfits including Fox News; her own in-house videos, in turn, provide fodder and B-roll for the same such segments.
    James Poniewozik, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2025
  • The same children who were content for their influencer parents have become uneasy fodder for streaming documentaries.
    Robert Petkoff Krish Seenivasan Quinton Kamara, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2025

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