How to Use elephant in a Sentence

elephant

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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
  • Osh the African elephant makes quick work of a whole coconut.
    — Fox News, 5 Apr. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • The boy loved wearing elephant bibs and shirts, Whitley said.
    — Holly Yan, CNN, 10 May 2023
  • The shots are seldom fatal and deter the elephants for a couple of months.
    — Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Botswana is home to the largest elephant population in the African continent, and the world.
    — Emma Ogao, ABC News, 4 Apr. 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
  • 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
  • The young elephant has been making headlines since birth.
    — Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 11 Dec. 2023
  • The elephant’s trunk was adorably wrapped around her, just above her growing baby bump.
    — Escher Walcott, Peoplemag, 9 July 2023
  • When the Zoonomia team tallied the number of these genes in each species, the African savanna elephant took the top spot, with 4,199.
    — Emily Anthes, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2023
  • Asian elephants are smaller than those in Africa — down to their flappy ears.
    — Lee Powell, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Other elephants at the zoo took part in the rainy weather by dousing themselves in mud.
    — Paloma Chavez, Sacramento Bee, 8 Feb. 2024
  • But these elephants take it to an extreme, spending about 17 to 19 hours a day just eating.
    — Adela Suliman, Washington Post, 5 Jan. 2024
  • Fitz, was only the second elephant born at the zoo in its 50-year history.
    — Ana Rocío Álvarez Bríñez, USA TODAY, 3 July 2023
  • Based on a reporter’s suggestion, the Stars took on the motto of taking one bite of an elephant at a time.
    — Joseph Hoyt, Dallas News, 30 May 2023
  • Beard, who had been gored by an elephant in 1996, died like an old tusker going to the elephants’ graveyard.
    — Dominic Green, WSJ, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Photos show the pink-skinned, light-eyed elephant playing with a gray elephant.
    — Moira Ritter, Miami Herald, 26 Feb. 2024
  • None of the other Berlin Zoo elephants engaged in peeling, according to the study.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 10 Apr. 2023
  • That’s about the equivalent weight of three female Asian elephants.
    — Katie Shepherd, Washington Post, 2 Aug. 2023
  • The African bush elephant holds the world record for the mammal that clocks the fewest hours of sleep per night, dozing off in bursts that together add up to just two hours.
    — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Apr. 2023
  • Punch and Mikki, the other two elephants in the zoo's exhibit, have not shown signs of the infection.
    — Ana Rocío Álvarez Bríñez, The Courier-Journal, 29 June 2023
  • African forest elephants have been victims of poaching and land loss.
    — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 23 Sep. 2023
  • If all goes well, the company hopes that the first woolly mammoth-Asian elephant hybrid will be born in 2027.
    — Gabe Allen, Discover Magazine, 27 Dec. 2023
  • How these gargantuan moai, each the weight of at least a couple of bull elephants, were placed on their ahus is a mystery.
    — Mark Johanson, Travel + Leisure, 19 Jan. 2024
  • Before Monday, Zahara was the zoo’s youngest elephant, at age 17.
    — Cheryl V. Jackson, The Indianapolis Star, 5 Sep. 2023
  • But unlike us, most elephants simply gobble them up whole—peel and all.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Apr. 2023

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