How to Use dojo in a Sentence

dojo

noun
  • Or climb mountains, run marathons, get punched in the face in a gym or dojo.
    — Paul Bloom, WSJ, 15 Oct. 2021
  • Then jump out of the car and book it over to the front of the dojo for the demonstration.
    — Ew Staff, EW.com, 6 May 2021
  • Salama is a full time karate sensei, or teacher, with his own dojo.
    — NBC News, 23 Nov. 2019
  • His grandson wasn’t the fastest or the most talented in the dojo.
    — Adam Kilgore, Washington Post, 29 July 2024
  • Tory seems to be the only person that has been loyal to a dojo on this show.
    — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 8 Sep. 2022
  • New students continue to fall in love with the dojo and the teaching.
    — Marina Affo, Washington Post, 11 Aug. 2019
  • But to the third-grader, the dojo was way more than a superhero’s secret lair.
    — Jill Tucker, SFChronicle.com, 4 July 2018
  • Hong and Hannah An took the woman next door to the safety of their dojo.
    — Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 20 June 2024
  • Participants may bring their own Nerf gun and ammo, or get one at the dojo.
    — Chris Barlow, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 18 Sep. 2017
  • There were churches, a judo dojo, a hospital and a baseball field, but these are all gone.
    — Alexander Nazaryan, Newsweek, 15 Feb. 2017
  • Then how Daniel's wife will embrace or not embrace this new chapter of him now going back to the dojo.
    — Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Aug. 2017
  • The only problem is, Kreese kicks the snot out of Armand’s goons and stays in his dojo.
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 3 Jan. 2021
  • Dickerson earned a black belt in karate by 11 years old, the youngest in the history of his dojo.
    — Mike Rodak | [email protected], al, 17 Dec. 2020
  • Korey looked at the uneven wood floors and the hornet infestation at the old dojo.
    — Washington Post, 11 Nov. 2021
  • Most people are probably not going to leave their jobs and homes to live and train at a dojo in Hawaii for three years.
    — Deborah Netburn, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2024
  • On a whim, the head of the dojo began offering daytime courses for parents.
    — Tom Vanderbilt, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2021
  • The Cobra Kai dojo is now open and there are plenty of new and old faces signing up to learn from one of the best.
    — Tamara Fuentes, Seventeen, 15 Sep. 2020
  • The fight doesn’t stop until all the fighters from one dojo are knocked off, at which point that dojo is out of the competition.
    — Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 15 Nov. 2024
  • The person Morales was accused of abusing, who is now an adult, was not a student at the dojo, the agency said.
    — Michael Williams, orlandosentinel.com, 11 June 2019
  • To keep too many people from congregating in the same space, the dojo decided last week to meet outdoors.
    — Dallas News, 27 Mar. 2020
  • Start With Mindset At the dojo, everyone is there to learn.
    — Patricio Larrea, Forbes.com, 12 Mar. 2026
  • But Wagener comes across as a jock, the karate guy from the bad dojo, someone who might at any moment give you a noogie.
    — Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 26 Jan. 2018
  • However, when Johnny goes to rent a new dojo the show decides to show us what the world is really like.
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 3 Jan. 2021
  • In the background, water dripped onto one side of the dojo’s floor, exposed after a storm recently took part of its roof.
    — Krista Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 28 Apr. 2022
  • In the Palisades, T-shirts from Blanck’s dojo are ubiquitous.
    — Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2026
  • The whole dojo has the feel of a hushed and brightly lit art gallery, with a wall of windows facing a street that is currently being whipped by the rain.
    — Chloe Schama, Vogue, 12 Jan. 2023
  • How Instinct Is Built In the dojo, instinct is not something you are born with.
    — Aslak De Silva, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • There are plenty of biomes packed in this map, with everything from a dojo to a seaport city to the Great Turtle's spot.
    — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 2 Dec. 2024
  • This time, Daniel and Johnny aren’t splitting the dojo before the big tournament.
    — Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 18 July 2024
  • Players can level up the Prayer Children at the dojo in the village or upgrade them elsewhere.
    — Gieson Cacho, Mercury News, 18 Aug. 2025

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