How to Use dingo in a Sentence

dingo

noun
  • Bell said his time on the island has taught him to stand up to dingoes.
    — Hilary Whiteman, CNN Money, 24 Jan. 2026
  • Then, two days later, a dingo bit a 4-year-old girl on the leg.
    — Adam England, PEOPLE, 23 Apr. 2026
  • At some point, the dingo had suffered a broken rib and lower leg.
    — ArsTechnica, 18 May 2026
  • Think of it as A Little Life, but with dingoes and willy-willies.
    — Literary Hub, 5 Mar. 2026
  • The autopsy results are putting a spotlight on dingoes.
    — CNN Money, 26 Jan. 2026
  • Information guides warn visitors not to run, as dingoes will give chase.
    — Hilary Whiteman, CNN Money, 24 Jan. 2026
  • The dogs had driven the woman into the surf before a tourist came to her rescue, beating off the dingoes.
    — CBS News, 20 Jan. 2026
  • The dogs had driven the woman into the surf before a tourist came to her rescue, beating off the dingoes.
    — CBS News, 28 Jan. 2026
  • The bones turned out to belong to an elderly male dingo, with worn teeth and possible signs of arthritis.
    — ArsTechnica, 18 May 2026
  • The dingoes and bears wallow in large piles of ice, while other animals have misters or fans in their habitats.
    — Martin Vassolo, Axios, 24 July 2024
  • Somebody nursed this dingo back to health after his kangaroo encounter.
    — ArsTechnica, 18 May 2026
  • Hunting kangaroos and snoozing by the fire The dingo’s bones tell their own story.
    — ArsTechnica, 18 May 2026
  • Three years ago, a pack of dingoes mauled a 23-year-old jogger in an attack police said was almost fatal.
    — CBS News, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Conservation of dingoes has been up for debate because they’re seen as wild dogs whose numbers need to be controlled.
    — science.org, 12 July 2024
  • In Australia, Aborigines kept dingo pups that slept inside their huts.
    — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 20 Nov. 2022
  • The Baaka dingo is proof of just how deeply dingoes had worked their way into people’s hearts and lives by around a thousand years ago.
    — ArsTechnica, 18 May 2026
  • 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
  • The Barkindji people have shown this small, elderly dingo the same care their ancestors did.
    — ArsTechnica, 18 May 2026
  • 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
  • Jasmin's plan calls for breeding different combinations of singing dogs and dingoes.
    — Kelly Wilkinson, Indianapolis Star, 27 Aug. 2019
  • The dingo arrived from Southeast Asia within the last 4,000 years.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 8 Aug. 2010
  • James said if dingoes are ultimately found to be responsible, Piper would not have supported a cull.
    — Hilary Whiteman, CNN Money, 24 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • While dingoes are treasured, they’re also acknowledged as dangerous.
    — Hilary Whiteman, CNN Money, 24 Jan. 2026
  • Attacks by dingoes — wild dogs native to Australia — on humans are rare, but the three incidents at the campground all happened in the space of a week.
    — Adam England, PEOPLE, 23 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • Above the possum were bilbies, marsupials with rabbit-like long ears, and dingoes, Australia’s native dog.
    — ABC News, 18 Mar. 2026
  • Above the possum were bilbies, marsupials with rabbit-like long ears, and dingoes, Australia’s native dog.
    — ABC News, 18 Mar. 2026
  • His dog, Ginger, a 3-year-old American dingo, started whining.
    — Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Aug. 2023
  • This news was met with delight, reports CNN, since dingos are considered to be a vulnerable species.
    — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 4 Nov. 2019

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