How To Use Elephant In A Sentence

But they have an undeniable gentleness and elephantine beauty about them, with their hanging folds of skin and ponderous outlook on life.
The conference began with a Wednesday evening welcome reception, held at Chicago's Field Museum, where 28 mostly Illinois breweries had set up beer stations among two stuffed elephants, a couple of totem poles and a tyrannosaur skeleton. Beer: A celebration of craft brewing
The herds and bands of elephants, horses, dancing girls and musicians, and scenes from the Ramayana come alive on the outer walls of the temple.
It is said to be similar in shape to a brontosaurus and the size of an elephant. The Sun
There will be a daily game drive in the park to spot leopards, elephants and tropical birds. Times, Sunday Times

A guard with a motorcycle and a shotgun could move through fields at night and work with farmers to scare elephants and hippos.
Show no public censure for your dying elephant, either. THROWING THE ELEPHANT
For example, the origin of ivory can be identified by its strontium isotopic composition, which reflects the diet of the elephant.
Elephant culls are highly controversial. Times, Sunday Times
Huge plantations of tea, coffee, and cardamom have emerged and taken over what was once prime elephant habitat.
Shy bushbuck, kudu, eland, impala, and elephant all take their turn whilst buffalo and waterbuck make their way to the sandy banks of the Zambesi.
It is the Elephant and Walrus Kingdoms that greet you today.
Since the ban on the trade in ivory in 1989, elephant populations in Africa have generally stabilised and in some areas are increasing.
Teri Hatcher has reportedly been caught up in a terrifying elephant stampede.
Experts attribute the behaviour to 'musth' (a state of heightened testosterone-fuelled aggression in bull elephants). The Times of India
Fortunately, other tools can help you see the elephant in several different lights.
My favourite variety of thresher is miscanthus, otherwise known as elephant grass. Times, Sunday Times
What do you do with a huge white elephant like that?
This kind of unusual elephant feather same material length approximately 0.8 centimeter.
She drew an elephant
Adult male elephants are generally solitary or associate with other bulls in loose associations while females live in families.
It was built on the track of an elephant trail and it was so rough that it rattled our bones and sent the radio antenna into a series of harmonic wobbles.
Every mahout and kavadi (tribal elephant watcher) would be with the elephant to keep it in good humour, the Warden added.
In addition, the teams surveyed the numbers of other plants and animals including endangered golden monkeys, elephants, and forest buffalo.
The survival of the African elephant hangs in the balance.
Pink Elephants on Parade" and "When I See an Elephant Fly" are the only songs that stick out.
The elephant is the largest land animal in existence.
The other elephant in the room was decommissioning liabilities. Times, Sunday Times
The big ones with the tusks and the trunks are surely elephants. Times, Sunday Times
Ten adult elephants - each with a number painted on it - were successfully moved and released in this fashion.
My father ended up looking like an African elephant. Times, Sunday Times
The title of the movie refers to the proverbial elephant in the living room - the big problem that is ignored for so long that people are no longer able to recognize it.
African elephant having enormous flapping ears and ivory tusks.
Was given a pen, by a pen shop - Elephant and Coral - who feel that authors should get nice pens (this was a Pilot pen with the nib carved out of the barrel, and looks like it will be a lovely thing to write with).
The blind touched the elephant's ear and said that it was just like a huge fan.
Apart from sheltering smaller wildlife like rabbits, gaur and jackal, a part of the estate forms an elephant trail which pachyderms from the Bannerghatta range frequent.
These pachyderms, originally kept at the Kozhikamudhi working campsite are used for entertaining tourists, conducting elephant safari and for removing fallen trees or for shifting logs.
After just one win in his first six races for Pipe, he was beginning to look something of a white elephant. The Sun
Cymbopogon spp. (ganaune gans) is another short grass species that occurs in distinct associations on the floodplain and is eaten by greater one-horned rhinoceroses and elephants. Terai-Duar savanna and grasslands
I have a recurrent dream that I've turned into an elephant.
Once inside we had the opportunity to gaze out onto the reef past a thick pelmet of black gorgonians and a window box of orange elephant ear sponges.
Another factor that could cause more problems for the elephants, and thus the people, is the ongoing conversion of some coffee estates to tea.
In terms of wildlife, you find elephant, buffalo, hippos, baboons, chimpanzees and over 600 species of birds.
The shore was deserted save for myself and a portly dogana-official who was playing with his little son -- trying to amuse him by elephantine gambols on the sand, regardless of his uniform and manly dignity. Old Calabria
The Indochinese tiger, Asian elephant and endemic species like the saola, Tonkin snub-nosed monkey and Siamese crocodile are on the verge of extinction in the country. Javan rhino driven to extinction in Vietnam, conservationists say
Solum est fertile atque amoenum; amnes aurum, silvae elephantos magna copia producunt: The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie
A quarter of an hour thus passed; then suddenly one of the elephants trumpeted, and a tremendous crashing in the reeds ensued.
She called the ankus ‘an elephant management tool that has been in use for thousands of years.’
Only a privileged few elephant seal bulls will become beach masters, controlling dozens of females and reproducing abundantly.
Last year, the buzzword was geolocation, and the conference's great, hovering, elephant in the room question was whether Foursquare v. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
Elephant ivory was more costly, and therefore more prestigious. The Times Literary Supplement
There are many possibilities, especially for comparative research in mole rats, agouti, gerbils and elephant shrews.
The elephant pounded into the rice field.
Rhinos, elephants, and other ungulates flehmen regularly; so do bats and cats, which have their own species variations. INSIDE OF A DOG
Keepers said Asian elephants have the longest gestation period - at 22 months - of any animal in the world.
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He was aware of the elephants and also the dangers that lurk in the jungles. The Sun
The crater is home to elephant, buffalo, baboon, reedbuck, colobus monkeys, leopard and duikers.
The nature and behavior of these proboscideans have also haunted South African naturalist Lyall Watson, who evokes their world in Elephantoms: Tracking the Elephant (W. W. Norton).
They will visit Nairobi Nursery, where the smallest orphaned elephants and rhinos are kept.
StephenAtHome I've been known to tickle the ivories, which is why I'm not allowed near the elephants at the zoo. All Things Go
Leprosy and lymphatic filariasis, or elephantiasis, leave victims deformed, hamper productivity and normal social interaction, Chan said. 1 Billion Suffer From Hidden Tropical Diseases, Says WHO
In the past India has been portrayed as a country steeped in history with fantastic archeological monuments and elephants and camels and so on. Times, Sunday Times
Children develop a pecking order, not as unidimensional as the dominance hierarchies of chickens and elephants, but nonetheless an influential youth-driven social order with a force of its own that each child can accept or reject, and that can accept or reject each child. Sean Slade: The Child Walking Through Schoolhouse Doors Enters a World
The trunk of an Asian elephant is so exquisitely prehensile that it can pick up a dime from a concrete floor.
On the fringes of this retinue, lions and crocodiles pounce on their victims while an elephant runs amok, and at the centre is the Navab, enlarged as befits his status, bending from his richly caparisoned mount to slash at a lion.
When the elephants come, locals light torches and make a din and harry the elephants off. Times, Sunday Times
Although a king cobra can grow to 15ft and has enough venom to knock out an elephant, its first instinct is always to run away from humans. Times, Sunday Times
Elephants, tigers and rhinoceroses are successfully bred at the Way Kambas National Park, which is also famous for its elephant training school.
`I examined this particular elephant's eyes afterwards, and the mahout admitted he had done this. TANK OF SERPENTS
EMA drops sharply with speed in elephants, as it does in humans. Tingilinde:
As our understanding of large marine predators increases, the critical role of concentrations of mesopelagic cephalopods in the lives of such species as elephant seals, billfishes and tuna is becoming clear.
One of the ancillary reasons, Hall decided to visit Assam was because he wanted to see if he could find the fabled graveyard of elephants - the final resting place these behemoths head towards when they sense the end was near.
For all its faults, Elephants on the Edge deals with a fascinating and little-understood subject, which makes it doubly disappointing to find it so devoid of facts and overstuffed with opinion.
Elephant shrews (no relation), pikas, and Tupaia treeshrews share both absentee-like maternal care and diurnality - that is, they are active during the day, when prey is more easily spotted by predators.
They noticed that the Elephant was limping, and then they saw the long blackwood splinter sticking out of his swollen foot.
IT sounded like the roar of 50,000 rampaging bull elephants and didn't let up all afternoon. The Sun
And I often wonder about the Nick and Nora who formerly owned my funky old cocktail set - a shaker and ice dish festooned with dancing pink elephants.
It is the one baht coin with the King's portrait on the obverse and the three-headed elephant on the reverse.
In 1992, pranksters turned the horse into a zebra by using rolls of black bin bags to create stripes down the sides, and the association said there had also been attempts to turn it into an elephant.
Yet man can enchain elephants and employ them, according to their own wishes. ' The Sultana's Dream
First, the chef prepares the ground with a barrage of giant popovers - steaming Yorkshire puddings as big as elephant knuckles, and weighted on their tops with crusts of Gruyère cheese.
Dating from 1465 to 1487, the Chenghua doucai jar bears the special tian mark and is decorated with red and yellow elephants dancing among waves.
He doused with petrol and inflammable glue 12 tonnes of illegally poached elephant tusks, worth almost ￡2m.
Elephants do not live by food alone. THROWING THE ELEPHANT
MANY WILDLIFE enthusiasts trek into the rainforest in the western ghats to spot elephants tigers, panthers and a variety of birds.
Soon enough, the cream will rise to the top and our elephantine popularity contest will have proven itself once again as both as defining and as completely irrelevant as freshman yearbook pictures.
The initial stages of training are not exactly kind but there is no other way of breaking a fully grown elephant.
In size there is the difference between the huge _terminalia_ towering up 200 feet high and the tiny little potentilla; between the atlas moth 12 inches in spread and the hardly discernible midges; between the elephant, massive enough to trample its way through the densest forest, and the humble little mouse peeping out of its hole in the ground. The Heart of Nature or, The Quest for Natural Beauty
Like an elephant beset by bees, or the straw that broke the camel's back, this week's swarm of small irritating things could madden even tolerant Taurans.
The pavilion has become a ￡14 million steel and glass white elephant.
A small boy rode on the elephant's back.
Those steeds and elephants and human beings that formed the (unslain) remnant of the (Pandava) host uttered loud cries when thy son fell. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12
Ostriches, emus, cassowaries, rheas, kiwis, moas and elephant birds really are more closely related to each other than they are to any other birds.
Will the elephant have a chicken sandwich? THROWING THE ELEPHANT
We had barely hammered in the last tent peg when 50 elephants emerged from the forest to bathe in the river. Times, Sunday Times
The ancient people of this area worshipped a huge bronze idol in the shape of an elephant.
He also won awards for Man and Elephant, the love story of a mahout and an elephant, which was been shown on 100 television channels internationally.
Two suggestions for the guild are the cutlers (who would use ivory for handles) and locksmiths (for whom both elephants and castles would symbolise security).
Displaying their talents, these giants will perform shows such trunk painting and a mock elephant battle ridden by mahouts.
CORWIN: And actually, the hyrax, which is so amazing, is a relative of elephants. CNN Transcript Jul 26, 2005
The hyrax - elephant - sirenian core is well-accepted on morphological grounds.
I'm giggling just looking at the big elephant seals up there covering themselves in sand so they don't get sunburnt. The Sun
According to Von Meyer no mandibular tusks were present and most probably the jaw possessed a short elephantine symphysis.
Guests at the launch were told that the return of elephants to South Africa's eastern shores would be the first step towards reinstating an ancient migration route for a sub-group of Maputaland pachyderms.
Is it all right to suggest the major reason Leverman has joined the hearthside Hannibals sending their red elephants east? What The New York Times Won't Tell You About Joe Lieberman
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The arms race was a " rogue elephant " against which we all must act.
Many thousands of brave and unreturning warriors, armed with axes and swords, became the footguards of those elephants. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12
The birth itself drags on for two nights. During thefirst night labour pains come on the cow elephant and the calf goes to itsfinal birth position.
Later on the custom was abolished because vulgar people tittered and the dignity of the elephants or their mahouts was wounded.
Elephant for the mammoth Cheetah for the New World cheetah Przewalski's horse for the tarpan In one proposal to "rewild" North America, Asian and African elephants would play the ecological role of the now-extinct Columbian mammoth. Pleistocene Park: Where the Auroxen Roam
They are involved in chasing a suspect before helping free an injured elephant trapped in a snare. The Sun
Right or wrong, Rumour was very busy; and Lord Decimus, while he was, or was supposed to be, in stately excogitation of the difficulty, lent her some countenance by taking, on several public occasions, one of those elephantine trots of his through a jungle of overgrown sentences, waving Little Dorrit
Feel no envy for the golfing elephant and those who attend it. THROWING THE ELEPHANT
The elephant-catching tribe, the Singphos, prepare for a catch in Assam, often tracking spoor on a river bank.
Soon after this, in 1879, the first conclusive proof of the direct transmission of a disease from man-to-man was presented by the father of tropical medicine, Sir Patrick Manson, with regard to filaria, a blood infection that often causes the repulsive condition known as elephantiasis and which the mosquito takes from man and after a short time gives over to another subject. Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86
African elephants have bigger ears.
Rosie drew an elephant and coloured it in.
A trained work elephant then moved up on either side, rather like tugs docking a ship.
She dropped her keys into a chintzy ceramic elephant that sat on a thrift-shop lacquer table by the front door.
The smallness of her universe melted away and she saw herself traveling — through exotic lands she so longed to see, to the coasts of the Mediterranean and the Adriatic seas, to the vast deserts of the African continent, where the lions sprawled among the trees, and elephants tromped the veldt. Second Chance
Few would argue with the case for reviewing what looks like a nuclear white elephant. Times, Sunday Times
To save remaining herds and habitat, the national parks department is planning to cull 2000 elephants.
So if in the heat of charter renewal and spending cuts radio is the unacknowledged elephant, it risks getting thinner and paler. Times, Sunday Times
Once when the late G.P. Sanderson was in a keddah, noosing wild elephants, and was assulted [sic] by a vicious tusker, his life was saved by a tame female elephant, whose boy driver caused her to attack the tusker with her head, and nearly bowl him over by the force of her blows upon his ribs. The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations
There, too, ranged species beyond species, are the extinct elephants; and there the ponderous skull of the dinotherium, with the bent tusks in its lower jaw, that give to it the appearance of a great pickaxe, and that must have dug deeply of old amid the liliaceous roots and bulbs of the Tertiary lakes and rivers. The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed
Increasingly, the Indian elephant is angry: for many years, illegal hunters have attacked it and its home in the jungle has been reduced to small pieces of land.
And Uncle Jack, whose pocket was never without a wet sheet of some kind or other, drew forth a steaming papyral monster, which in point of size was to the political "Times" as a mammoth may be to an elephant. The Caxtons — Complete
Nice fresh Alaskan salmon on the grill in tinfoil, drizzled with soy sauce, sprinkled with lemon pepper, topped with elephant garlic and fresh slices of lemon ... oh yes, half the lemon is squeezed all over it, other spices you may see fit. Wild Game dishes
Their predominant expression was good nature, a kind of elephantine docility, which neutralized the awe inspired by his immense size. Helen and Arthur or, Miss Thusa's Spinning Wheel
Sirenians are members of the group known as subungulates, thought to be distantly related to hyraxes, elephants, and perhaps, artiodactyls and perissodactyls.
Elephants are intelligent animals.
The ornate sets include 30 ft bejeweled elephants, a unique red stage and three miles of gold tiling.
Treatment of elephantiasis nostras aims at prevention of recurrent infection and edema.
In a crash, an unbelted passenger can be thrown forward with the equivalent weight of a baby elephant and injure the occupants in the front.
After an elephantine period of gestation the scheme in its present form was implemented as and when each public entertainment licence came up for renewal after March 1998.
As the saying goes, when elephant bulls fight, it is the grass that suffers.
It probably lacked the long hair, looking more like a modern elephant, but was more imposing with longer tusks and a higher head. Times, Sunday Times
Designer Daan van den Berg did a tridimensional scan to an Ikea lamp, infected the file with a digital version of Elephantiasis virus and printed the result in a 3D printer. Archive 2009-05-01
The elephant used its trunk to put food in its mouth and suck up water.
The White Elephant waved his trunk around at the village.
MORE than five tons of smuggled elephant tusks worth 6.5million have been destroyed. The Sun
The elephants rampaged through the forest.
The elephant crashed through the forest.
It is also a refuge for elephants, buffaloes, zebras, cheetahs, leopards, lions, waterbucks and impalas and it contains the only protected indigenous forest remaining in the area.
Cake and white elephant stalls plus a grand prize draw.
Activities on offer include day and night game drives, walks, mokoro (dugout canoe) rides and elephant-back safaris. Times, Sunday Times
Elephant bulls that are in musth - when their testosterone levels are high, and they're going aggressively after the ladies - urinate on their back legs.
He provides a sketch of a creature with the head of an elephant, a fishlike body with a camel hump, four legs like a lion, and a forked tail like a fish.
The elephant, by some called oliphant, is the largest of all four-footed beasts. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 07
Show no public censure for your dying elephant, either. THROWING THE ELEPHANT
The Elephant's Trunk Nebula is an elongated dark globule within the emission nebula IC 1396 in the constellation of Cepheus.
Hey, maybe they'll ask you to the big European SF convention in Nantes, and you can go ride the steam-powered elephant! Kateelliott: Deals and Deliveries
Elephants are like humans in that they need company to thrive. Times, Sunday Times
So, you take a sentence like -This is a classic line from Groucho Marx: "I once shot an elephant in my pajamas.
They pursued elephants here, there and everywhere.
But the waters here are home to the elephant seal.
It has now become a major attraction for wild elephants, bison, hyena and boars.
A further displacement from the land is suggested in two tiny etchings of the foetuses of an elephant and a monkey, beautifully worked in aquatint.
Luckily enough, a circus happens to be passing by, and one dwarf leads his elephant over to the car, where the elephant plucks the woman out with his trunk.
Major problems confronting CITES have resulted from the highly lucrative trade in the ivory from tusks of elephants.
The elephant grinds its food with/between its powerful molars.
To save remaining herds and habitat, the national parks department is planning to cull 2000 elephants.
The windscreen cracked and the elephant came forward again, crashing into the door.
He could easily have cited the Aldabran tortoise, the chuckwalla of Angel de la Guarda, the hippo of Madagascar, the beetles of Madeira, the elephantids of Timor, the iguanas of the Galápagos, the finches of Darwin and Lack, the earwig of Saint Helena, and the dodo. The Song of The Dodo
One day I was in the nearby village of Lang Co, where I went every day except Sunday, to treat the villagers for their various ailments, which ranged from ringworm and pinworm to elephantiasis. Chicken Soup for the Soul: Loving Our Dogs
Medieval heraldry often showed an elephant with a castle on its back.
An elephant pulls teak and rosewood logs at the Pak Lay Sawmill.
Other mammals found here include elephants, lions, forest buffaloes, warthogs, and a variety of antelopes such as waterbuck, reedbuck, common duiker, and even the swamp-dwelling sitatunga, the most aquatic of the antelopes. Ecoregions of Congo, Democratic Republic of (WWF)
The intrinsic value of the materials employed predominates in the earlier model: the value of plate at an Athenian symposium, or the value of gold and ivory in the chryselephantine statues by Phidias.
There takes place in the keddah, or pen of capture, a mighty struggle between the giant strength of the captive and the ingenuity of man, ably seconded by a few powerful tame elephants. The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations
Elephant trunks and tongues are other examples of a muscular hydrostat.
The tour, which also takes in the Royal Enclosure, Phimeanakas, the Terrace of the Elephants and Terrace of Leper Kings, as well as the famous Ta Prohm temple, ends with a gentle boat ride from the south gate to the west gate of Angkor Thom, where guests are picked up and taken to the five-star Hôtel de la Paix in nearby Siem Reap. Memories Worth 1,000 Pradas
At first glance it looks as though the structure might belong to the Social Security Administration or some other elephantine bureaucracy.
He slapped old friends on the back and asked them if the stumps were coming away easily; he talked nonsense concerning labour and the inalienable rights of elephants to a long 'nooning'; and, wandering to and fro, thoroughly demoralized the garden till sundown, when he returned to his pickets for food. Life's Handicap
Acokanthera shrub, which has bark filled with "ouabain", closely-related to a source of arrow poison famously used to kill elephants. USATODAY.com News
Wealthy Britons pay tens of thousands to bag a lion, elephant or polar bear in trophy hunts that recreate images of a bygone colonial era
It was like trying to hide an elephant with a postage stamp. Times, Sunday Times
The elephant's trunk is a unique form of appendage.
Ganesh is the "le dieu" (the God) with "la tête d'éléphant" (the elephant's head) and is the deity of knowledge and wisdom (of "le Savoir" and "la Sagesse"). Cuisine
Huge elephantine forms, the mastodon, the hippopotamus, the tapir, antelopes of monstrous size, the megatherium, and the myledon — all, for the moment, in juxtaposition. A Pair of Blue Eyes
The elephant is the largest living land animal.
China is now the primary market for tiger bone, rhino horn, elephant ivory, live snakes, pangolins and a whole host of wildlife products.
She felt about as poised as a baby elephant taking his first steps, she thought miserably.
The article suggests that protecting elephants and their natural habitats would be a step to survival of the species.
We walked for hours in the warm sun of the African spring, and in the near distance saw impalas, zebras, a few elephants, wildebeests, and giraffes, as well as the ever-present vervet monkeys catching air between branches.
She can describe an ostrich or elephant with equal felicity.
It is an electrogenic fish, generating a weak electric field that is apparently used in navigation, sensing its surroundings, and in communication (the fish use eletrical pulses to send signals to other elephantnoses). Dinosauroids revisited
The valley from the hill to the massif was all flat plains covered with elephant grass.
When she feels threatened, an elephant matriarch will group her family in defensive position, which prevents foraging.
Each elephant is caparisoned in glittering gold, red, silver or blue cloth, studded with brilliants and lit with lamps.
Measures have been taken to protect the world's depleted elephant population.
Edouches per Indiam habentur, quod ferarum genus satis est maius nostris communibus equis, geren in fronte tetri capitis tria longa cornua, ad formam pugionis, ex vtraque parte scindentia, vt eis nonnunquam interficiant Elephantes. The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville
Since gas bubbles increase sensitivity to sound, many ray-finned fish (e.g. herrings, elephantfishes and squirrelfishes) have modified gas bladders and swimbladders adjacent to the inner ear.
The cameras also showed the elephants standing with their trunks to the ground, as though they were listening, which is probably what they were doing, given that the trunk is also packed with vibration sensors.
The "Mandleve" coin depicts the tag-eared elephant's head and the other coins depict the head of their respective animals on their common obverse. ANC Daily News Briefing
We did a life-size elephant recently made out of 8,000 white roses. Times, Sunday Times
It's a safari postcard moment: A family of elephants rush together, rumbling, trumpeting, and screaming, their chorused voices deafening in the wilderness.
Add up all the lions, elephants, warthogs, giraffes, gazelles, zebras, impalas, topis and hyenas that live on these plains and they fail to outnumber the gnus.

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