elephant skin

Example Sentences

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A slab of sedimentary rock was covered in a wrinkled texture that looked strikingly like elephant skin.

From Science Daily • Apr. 3, 2026

Using elephant skin and other body parts is nothing new in Southeast Asia.

From National Geographic • Nov. 29, 2017

Raw elephant skin brought about $29 a pound in Mong La last year and 12 times as much in China.

From National Geographic • Nov. 29, 2017

It is a squat cylinder four stories high and 231 ft. across, sheathed in granite aggregate the color of flushed elephant skin.

From Time Magazine Archive

I chose a fat crayon the color of elephant skin or a rainy sidewalk.

From "Wintergirls" by Laurie Halse Anderson