Sentence examples for As a dodo from inspiring English sources
THE phrase "dead as a dodo" may soon be endangered.
I've planted them with the hazel coppice, which still looks dead as a dodo from winter chainsawing.
"It's dead as a dodo," said Jeremy Meus, who has run a jewellery stand in the market for 20 years.
The spooky melodrama and gothic effects are restricted to a bad sound design and acting by the seven-strong cast as dead as a dodo.
The hanging, drawing and quartering of Stuart Lancaster and his fellow coaches has been under way since Saturday night and those thirsting for blood will expect to see heads on spikes somewhere in the vicinity of Traitor's Gate well before the start of the dead-as-a-dodo game with Uruguay this weekend.
It's as if a dodo had materialized in the heart of Manhattan — and not some stuffed relic from a natural history museum but a fat, frisky dodo, as alive as you or I.
It will be sold alongside other unusual exhibits such as a fragment from a dodo's femur bone.
They got more than they asked for, as they rediscovered a dodo mass grave that had been partially excavated in 1865, but had slowly faded back into obscurity afterwards.
Seaside Park is presided over by a Dodo bird whose presence directly invokes "Alice in Wonderland" in which dodos are used as croquet mallets.
