How to Use elephant in a Sentence

elephant

noun

• The zoo was not open to the public at the time of the 12-year-old bull elephant's death.
  — Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE.com, 24 June 2021
• The elephant isn’t just in the room, it’s sprawled across both of your laps, singing show tunes.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2023
• The door opened and a big elephant stomped into the board room.
  — Jerry Shnay, Chicago Tribune, 27 Jan. 2025
• But there’s a lot left to learn about the young elephant, Barthel says.
  — Vicky Hallett, Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2022
• The rest of the elephants then also joined the rampage.
  — David Faris, Newsweek, 10 July 2024
• That's about the same as four blue whales or 100 African elephants.
  — Ina Fried, Axios, 10 Jan. 2025
• Osh the African elephant makes quick work of a whole coconut.
  — Fox News, 5 Apr. 2024
• For a time, the elephant was the ultimate weapon of war.
  — Amanda Foreman, WSJ, 5 Aug. 2021
• This was one of the last of the elephant kin in North America.
  — Peter Brannen, The Atlantic, 22 June 2022
• The elephant would just leave a pile of kindling there.
  — Françoise Mouly, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2022
• Didn't get a chance to eat buttery corn on the cob and elephant ears?
  — Lilly St. Angelo, The Indianapolis Star, 24 Aug. 2021
• The elephant in aisle 1 The shadow of Walmart looms over the dispute.
  — J.j. McCorvey, NBC News, 27 Feb. 2024
• Tim got on a roll about a story about Siamese elephants joined at the trunk.
  — Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Apr. 2023
• The second elephant in the theater is, of course, the cross-dressing.
  — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 5 Dec. 2021
• The prince is huddling next to an elephant that fell a small distance from the rest.
  — Klara Glowczewska, Town & Country, 28 Sep. 2021
• During the day, the group sculpted a statue of an elephant out of mud.
  — Dino Grandoni and Kim Bellware, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Sep. 2023
• Hosmer doesn’t need to try and eat this elephant in one bite.
  — Bryce Miller Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 July 2021
• Here’s the test: For two minutes, please don’t think about a big pink elephant.
  — Micah Solomon, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2021
• Costly court battles led to the end of elephant acts in 2016.
  — Mark Kennedy, Sun Sentinel, 22 Mar. 2023
• The erratic is shaped like an elephant’s head, with a large ear and trunk.
  — Chelsey Lewis, Journal Sentinel, 23 June 2022
• Within a few years, the park had goats, monkeys and more elephants.
  — Drake Bentley, Journal Sentinel, 8 Oct. 2024
• The monkeys and elephants are long-gone, and the casino has seen better days.
  — Will Yakowicz, Forbes, 17 Jan. 2025
• The boy loved wearing elephant bibs and shirts, Whitley said.
  — Holly Yan, CNN, 10 May 2023
• Spending time in the hide, with elephants mere yards away, was a hands-down highlight.
  — Heather Richardson, Travel + Leisure, 10 Aug. 2024
• The shots are seldom fatal and deter the elephants for a couple of months.
  — Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
• Sweet corn in the vegetable garden will reach that elephant’s eye a whole lot faster in this kind of heat.
  — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 14 June 2022
• Trong Nhi and Nhi Linh have started to meet the other females in the zoo’s elephant herd.
  — Dana Hedgpeth, Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2022
• The younger baby elephant is waiting for his first weigh-in.
  — PEOPLE.com, 1 Feb. 2022
• One hundred and one life-size elephant sculptures will be showcased in Houston's Hermann Park in April.
  — Shafaq Patel, Axios, 25 Feb. 2025
• The machinery has previously saved elephants from mud pits, rescued dogs from rivers and even removed camels out of muddy swamps.
  — Brenton Blanchet, People.com, 7 Mar. 2025