How to Use dorado in a Sentence

dorado

noun
  • These are followed by pastas tossed with clams and hunks of lobster flesh, and a whole baked dorado.
    David Prior, CNT, 20 Sep. 2017
  • So the dolphins circled around my boat and one dolphin emerged minutes later with a dorado in its mouth.
    D.j Hopson, Popular Mechanics, 24 Mar. 2010
  • Most anglers had long since abandoned any hope of catching a dorado.
    Robert Gauthier, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2022
  • If fire is the show at Arson, then the aforementioned dorado is the Flying Wallendas.
    Carlos Frías, miamiherald, 21 June 2017
  • This in turn attracts plankton and small fish, which in turn draws larger, predatory fish such as dorado, tuna, and sharks.
    Brian Payton, Smithsonian, 9 Feb. 2018
  • The Gulf, meanwhile, can bring everything from Kingfish, snapper, dorado and even shark within 30 miles of shore.
    Emilia Benton, Houston Chronicle, 20 Sep. 2019
  • These are the trips where white and blue marlin weighing hundreds of pounds are available for the taking, in addition to large tuna, wahoo and dorado.
    Emilia Benton, Houston Chronicle, 20 Sep. 2019
  • Also, fly fishing for golden dorado in Bolivia, which is the No. 1 bucket-list item on the company’s top 12 promotion.
    Matt Wyatt, ExpressNews.com, 9 May 2020
  • At this resort, famed for its quiet allure and world-class sportfishing, expect to bag marlin, sailfish, or dorado—with the help of experienced guides—and then dine on your catch that evening.
    Jenny Peters, National Geographic, 25 July 2019
  • Cámara brings that sensibility to her cookbook with simple, flavorful recipes for crispy tacos dorados, sopes with seafood adobo and her famed tuna tostadas.
    SFChronicle.com, 21 June 2019
  • My favorite segment was about how flying fish can use their wings to escape their super-fast and efficient underwater predators called dorados.
    Michael Heaton, cleveland.com, 22 May 2017
  • Others are Big Poppa 6 and Big Poppa 8, saltwater popping lures for surface action to attract dorado, tarpon, redfish and more.
    John Goodspeed, San Antonio Express-News, 26 Apr. 2018
  • That bycatch draws the attention of a world of predator species — king and Spanish mackerel, shark, ling, dorado, tuna, little tunny and, occasionally, a wild card such as sailfish or wahoo.
    Shannon Tompkins, Houston Chronicle, 23 June 2018
  • Eligible fish species this year include speckled trout, mangrove snapper, cobia, dorado, red snapper, flounder and sheepshead, with method of take coming into play for speckled trout.
    Todd Masson, NOLA.com, 25 May 2017
  • The next time someone proposes walking across hot coals as an improving ritual, offer as a counterproposal to steal a dorado.
    Dwight Garner, New York Times, 25 June 2018
  • The orange truck serves meats including birria de res, birria de chivo, beef cheek, beef lip and chicken on handmade tortillas in tacos suaves, tacos dorados, quesatacos, mulitas and vampiros.
    Hadley Tomicki, Los Angeles Times, 6 Aug. 2019
  • The month sees migratory pelagics such as king mackerel and ling and dorado return to Gulf waters within boaters’ range, drawn by warming temperatures and flourishing forage.
    Shannon Tompkins, Houston Chronicle, 23 June 2018
  • The sky-blue walls are covered with old photographs and maps, and the kitchen cooks up simple but delicious seasonal dishes made from local ingredients including rabbit, prawns and lampuki (dorado that are caught from September to November).
    Gisela Williams, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2016
  • The dorado — better known by its Hawaiian name, mahi-mahi — is a luminary of the sport fishing world whose sudden appearance last month off the Los Angeles coast has sparked a feeding frenzy among local anglers.
    Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2022

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