How to Use great auk in a Sentence

great auk

noun

• The great auk had long provided humans with a source of meat and eggs.
  — The Conversation/jessica Emma Thomas, Ars Technica, 2019-12-27
• Museums and merchants started paying top dollar for great auk eggs and skins.
  — New York Times, 2019-12-04
• Like the dodo and the great auk, the tiger found a curious immortality as a global icon of extinction, more renowned for the tragedy of its death than for its life, about which little is known.
  — Brooke Jarvis, The New Yorker, 2012-01-16
• The great auk, a large, flightless bird with a black back and a white belly, once lived across the North Atlantic—from Scandinavia to the eastern coast of Canada.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 2019-11-28