elephantine

How To Use elephantine 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 sandy beach at Chintheche is one of the best on the entire lakeshore, hemmed in by smooth, elephantine rocks.
• Here are the clues we have to work with: Over the Veteran's Day weekend, GOP negotiators from the House and Senate hunkered down to finalize the details of the elephantine security bill.
• What boots it to tell that the arms and vesture of this "chryselephantine" statue are of pure gold; that the flesh portions are of gleaming ivory; that Phidias has wrought the whole so nobly together that this material, too sumptuous for common artists, becomes under his assembling the perfect substance for the manifestation of deity? A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life
• chryselephantine;" that is, composed of ivory and gold; the parts representing flesh being of ivory laid on a core of wood or stone, while the drapery and other ornaments were of gold. The Age of Fable
• It's not easy, because it is a bureaucracy that really for 50 years kind of went to waste and grew in elephantine proportions and they were trying to get it to do gymnastics, so it really did need to reform.
• Grandma's elephantine ankles, mother's hypochondria, Grandpa's grubbiness, are all experienced as her own.
• Harsh actinic lights illuminated both the elephantine generators and horizontal warp core, and three twitching bodies on the floor. Star Trek The Next Generation®
• Now that might not seem like that much money to a state facing an elephantine $38 billion budget deficit, but it means very specific cuts to very specific programs that affect hundreds of thousands of people.
• Thank you all very much," she said -- and was gone, with a kind of elephantine swiftness. Captain Jim