elephantine

Example Sentences

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Despite Casey’s protestations, the dog somehow ends up in her backpack, and when Clifford blows up to elephantine proportions, it sets off a series of wild adventures through the city.

From Seattle Times

Johns’s entire body of work, to go by this elephantine show of more than 500 works, is akin to a trove of Nabokovian love letters — obscure and thwarted, but also punning, mordant, full of life.

From Washington Post

Not to be overlooked is Russell Westbrook, who turned in six consecutive triple-doubles on the trip after weeks of carrying an elephantine load with so many key teammates out.

From Washington Post

And in “the ultimate expression of sheer, elephantine joy,” the animals then let loose with bladder and bowels.

From Washington Post

Spreading their skis wide to disperse their weight on ice that bowed beneath them, they moved as quickly as their elephantine sleds allowed.

From National Geographic