elephantine

Example Sentences

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It is often assumed that elephantine ponderousness is the price that must be paid for their storytelling heft.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 2026

“My wobbling, elephantine car is no match for his agile V12 Mercedes, but I somehow keep up,” he writes.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2025

It turned out that, for a few crucial years in the late-Eisenhower and early-Kennedy era, Ellsberg was at the center of this story, and his memory was elephantine.

From Slate • Jun. 16, 2023

The elephantine grand piano can easily bully its smaller partners or timidly overcompensate.

From New York Times • May 6, 2023

He collected fragments from a pig-size guinea pig, armor plates from a tanklike armadillo, more elephantine bones from elephantine sloths, and crated and shipped them to England.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee