How to Use fodder in a Sentence
fodder
noun- His antics always make good fodder for the gossip columnists.
- She often used her friends' problems as fodder for her novels.
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That’s all just fun fodder for now.
—Jordan Sigler, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Nov. 2025
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So there’s a lot of new stuff, new fodder.
—Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 8 June 2026
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But who is talking makes for fodder that lasts for days.
—Jason Jones, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2026
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All that time in academia may have been fodder for his latest book.
—Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 2 July 2021
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There were headlines and talk-show fodder for weeks and weeks to come.
—Brad Biggs, Chicago Tribune, 25 Feb. 2025
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The deeply repressed make great ghost fodder.
—Literary Hub, 26 May 2026
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Sturges would likely look around and see a lot of fodder for a good script.
—Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2023
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This is the kind of self-aware fan fodder that, in lesser films, might feel tired.
—Stephanie Burt, The New Yorker, 14 June 2023
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Are the Clips now better than first-round fodder?
—David Aldridge, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2025
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Just the crooked cops in this story would be fodder for a miniseries.
—Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2022
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The rulings will provide good talk show fodder over the next few days.
—Jeff Zrebiec, New York Times, 8 Dec. 2025
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Those goat screams have become meme fodder and even made it onto the big screen.
—María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 12 May 2023
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From red carpets to the stage, there's no shortage of fodder for your group text chain.
—Catherine Santino, People.com, 1 Aug. 2025
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More trade fodder below after the links!
—Zach Harper, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2026
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Still, there was a time when internet memes used to be fodder for costumes.
—WIRED, 20 Oct. 2023
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That stunt made good joke fodder for late-night host Stephen Colbert.
—oregonlive, 17 Feb. 2022
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Such truths hang on; everything else is fodder for the subway rats.
—Pitchfork, 1 Oct. 2024
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That would have Sadiq as waiver fodder in redraft.
—Zack Rosenblatt, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2026
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The case was tabloid fodder and its legal twists and turns transfixed much of the country.
—Kristin Hussey, New York Times, 30 Oct. 2020
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It's given Democrats more fodder on the campaign trail this year.
—Claudia Grisales, NPR, 10 Apr. 2026
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The fodder are young athletes like Zhou whose Olympic dreams end with a nasal swab.
—Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Feb. 2022
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For the first time, their beauty businesses were tabloid fodder too.
—Cheryl Wischhover, Allure, 4 May 2021
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Too much moisture and a flat pitch can be easy fodder for batters — even in Perth.
—Michael Bailey, New York Times, 19 Nov. 2025
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With not much to fill all those hours, many turned to prurient topics and became easy fodder for satire.
—Mark Kennedy, Star Tribune, 19 July 2021
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The report is the latest fodder in a debate over whether and how to revise the tax code.
—Patricia Cohen, Star Tribune, 3 Apr. 2021
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Foreman also defended his right to use the raid footage as fodder for his work.
—Assistant Editor, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2026
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In a post-Get Out world, all racial traumas are now horror fodder.
—Kim Wong-Shing, Glamour, 23 Oct. 2020
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And how reading in public became meme fodder.
—Christian Orozco, NBC news, 16 Oct. 2025
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