tusk

Example Sentences

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House calls for hoof trims or tusk care can cost hundreds of dollars.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 3, 2026

On a small mammoth carved from tusk, the researchers analysed carefully engraved rows of crosses and dots.

From BBC • Feb. 26, 2026

They might paint an elephant tusk black, or try to make pangolin scales look like candy or chocolate.

From NewsForKids.net • Nov. 28, 2024

It turned out to be something far rarer, Lundberg said: a large section of tusk from a long-extinct mastodon.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 6, 2024

It had been expanded, improved upon, excavated and tunneled into by successive Masters of Stormhold, until the original mountain peak now raked the sky like the ornately carved tusk of some great, grey, granite beast.

From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman