How to Use elephant in a Sentence
elephant
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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
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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
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The door opened and a big elephant stomped into the board room.
—Jerry Shnay, Chicago Tribune, 27 Jan. 2025
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But there’s a lot left to learn about the young elephant, Barthel says.
—Vicky Hallett, Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2022
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The rest of the elephants then also joined the rampage.
—David Faris, Newsweek, 10 July 2024
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That's about the same as four blue whales or 100 African elephants.
—Ina Fried, Axios, 10 Jan. 2025
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Osh the African elephant makes quick work of a whole coconut.
—Fox News, 5 Apr. 2024
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For a time, the elephant was the ultimate weapon of war.
—Amanda Foreman, WSJ, 5 Aug. 2021
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This was one of the last of the elephant kin in North America.
—Peter Brannen, The Atlantic, 22 June 2022
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The elephant would just leave a pile of kindling there.
—Françoise Mouly, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2022
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Didn't get a chance to eat buttery corn on the cob and elephant ears?
—Lilly St. Angelo, The Indianapolis Star, 24 Aug. 2021
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The elephant in aisle 1 The shadow of Walmart looms over the dispute.
—J.j. McCorvey, NBC News, 27 Feb. 2024
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Tim got on a roll about a story about Siamese elephants joined at the trunk.
—Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Apr. 2023
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The second elephant in the theater is, of course, the cross-dressing.
—Helen Shaw, Vulture, 5 Dec. 2021
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The prince is huddling next to an elephant that fell a small distance from the rest.
—Klara Glowczewska, Town & Country, 28 Sep. 2021
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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
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Hosmer doesn’t need to try and eat this elephant in one bite.
—Bryce Miller Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 July 2021
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Here’s the test: For two minutes, please don’t think about a big pink elephant.
—Micah Solomon, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2021
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Costly court battles led to the end of elephant acts in 2016.
—Mark Kennedy, Sun Sentinel, 22 Mar. 2023
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The erratic is shaped like an elephant’s head, with a large ear and trunk.
—Chelsey Lewis, Journal Sentinel, 23 June 2022
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Within a few years, the park had goats, monkeys and more elephants.
—Drake Bentley, Journal Sentinel, 8 Oct. 2024
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The monkeys and elephants are long-gone, and the casino has seen better days.
—Will Yakowicz, Forbes, 17 Jan. 2025
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The boy loved wearing elephant bibs and shirts, Whitley said.
—Holly Yan, CNN, 10 May 2023
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Spending time in the hide, with elephants mere yards away, was a hands-down highlight.
—Heather Richardson, Travel + Leisure, 10 Aug. 2024
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The shots are seldom fatal and deter the elephants for a couple of months.
—Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
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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
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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
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The younger baby elephant is waiting for his first weigh-in.
—PEOPLE.com, 1 Feb. 2022
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It isn't yet known which sections of the genome are vital for achieving the characters needed to make an elephant fit for life in the Arctic Circle.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 4 Mar. 2025
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One hundred and one life-size elephant sculptures will be showcased in Houston's Hermann Park in April.
—Shafaq Patel, Axios, 25 Feb. 2025
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