How to Use elephant in a Sentence

elephant

noun
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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
  • 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
  • Osh the African elephant makes quick work of a whole coconut.
    — Fox News, 5 Apr. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • The zoo has used the same habitat to house its elephants for 35 years, but will soon close the exhibit for good.
    — Jason Mastrodonato, The Mercury News, 13 Oct. 2024
  • Botswana is home to the largest elephant population in the African continent, and the world.
    — Emma Ogao, ABC News, 4 Apr. 2024
  • Bears, elephants, camels and monkeys were on loan from the Central Park Zoo.
    — Chad Murphy, The Enquirer, 26 Nov. 2024
  • This adorable elephant design comes in five colors, and in sizes up to 24 months.
    — Marisa Lascala and Lori Bergamotto, Good Housekeeping, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Tourneau was thrown from the vehicle and trampled by the elephant.
    — CBS News, 21 June 2024
  • Adults hid in the shade of young trees and took photos with green sculptures of dinosaurs, elephants, and bears.
    — Haiane Avakian, The Atlantic, 27 Sep. 2023
  • To put that in context, one blue whale is roughly the length of two school buses and weighs about the same as 30 elephants.
    — Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 May 2023
  • These fish—the biggest on the planet—stretch up to 18 meters long and weigh as much as two elephants.
    — Byjack Tamisiea, science.org, 24 Mar. 2023
  • The elephant then flips the vehicle over and the passengers can be heard gasping as the car rolls over.
    — Yuliya Talmazan, NBC News, 5 Apr. 2024
  • His heart is dying, and the pain is unbearable, like an elephant sitting on his chest.
    — Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 19 Dec. 2024
  • This was an elephant who prefers cutoff hoodies, and just so happens to be very familiar with New England.
    — Joe Arruda, Hartford Courant, 27 Dec. 2024

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