How to Use dorado in a Sentence

dorado

noun
  • Most anglers had long since abandoned any hope of catching a dorado.
    — Robert Gauthier, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2022
  • These are followed by pastas tossed with clams and hunks of lobster flesh, and a whole baked dorado.
    — David Prior, CNT, 20 Sep. 2017
  • The team also tells the fishmongers to bag up dozens of the whole dorado and filets of ruby red tuna.
    — Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 July 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • If fire is the show at Arson, then the aforementioned dorado is the Flying Wallendas.
    — Carlos Frías, miamiherald, 21 June 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The dorado's route is now threatened by hydropower dams and river fragmentation, which block the fish from reaching their breeding sites and cause steep population declines.
    — Christopher Edwards, PEOPLE, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Bell, who had a hot dog and hamburger stand across the street, noticed that diners kept lining up outside of Mitla Cafe, which sold tacos dorados for 10 cents apiece.
    — Danielle Dorsey, Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2024
  • 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
  • There, the juvenile dorado feed and grow up to six feet long and 200 pounds before the fish make the 1-2 year journey back to the foothills of the Andes to lay their own eggs.
    — Christopher Edwards, PEOPLE, 1 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • Eligible people should show their SNAP card and ID to receive tacos dorados; up to three meals per family.
    — Kate Bradshaw, Mercury News, 28 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • On the dining front, Dexter’s features flavorful dishes like dorado with plantain cakes, butternut squash and coconut risotto by chef Dexter Burrus.
    — Kristin Braswell, AFAR Media, 14 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • 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 mindset stuck with me right up until my trip deep into the Sécure River, a remote jungle river in Bolivia, to photograph and fish for golden dorado in October 2012.
    — Will Rice, Outside, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Altered river flows, barriers and overfishing are increasingly disrupting these journeys, and dorado populations in upstream Bolivia have plummeted.
    — Zeb Hogan, The Conversation, 24 Mar. 2026
  • In areas like the western Pantanal's Serra do Amolar mountain range, sport fishing has drawn (and still attracts) Brazilian city slickers more interested in wrestling dorado out of the water than learning about the flora and fauna.
    — Megan Spurrell, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • About 47 million people live in the Amazon region, and its fisheries are heavily reliant on migratory species such as dorado, which generate $436 million annually, according to the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species (CMS).
    — Christopher Edwards, PEOPLE, 1 Apr. 2026

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