tusks

Example Sentences

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With their thick coats, curved tusks, and towering size, they grazed the vast steppes that stretched across the northern hemisphere.

From Science Daily • Nov. 15, 2025

One of the group “plunged her tusks up to the gums in the body of my Land-Rover . . . again she charged, and the Land-Rover was carried backwards at high speed for thirty-five yards.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 30, 2025

Items stolen from the Oakland museum included Native American baskets, jewelry, laptops, historic photographs and intricately carved ivory tusks.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 29, 2025

And they have tiny, mostly useless little eyes, no ears, and a pair of huge incisors like a mastodon's tusks.

From Salon • May 11, 2025

Woodland elephants are different from their grand cousins who stomp across the grasslands: they’re smaller and more delicate, nuzzling through the leafy soil with rosy-pink tusks.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver