elephant

Example Sentences

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We are told of his riding an elephant with Michelangelo Antonioni, and his likening of Andrei Tarkovsky to a younger brother.

From The Wall Street Journal

The southern African country has a thriving elephant population and clashes between humans and wildlife have claimed many lives in recent years.

From BBC

When he got a large elephant pin from Thailand — one handed out to athletes from that country — he parlayed that into 35 smaller pins, and he was hooked.

From Los Angeles Times

It didn’t rain cats and dogs; it rained cows and horses … lions and tigers … boy, it rained elephants and giraffes!

From Literature

I found some growing by the water a little way down from our shelter, with their fanned-out leaves like scalloped elephant ears.

From Literature