elephant
Example Sentences
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A female elephant can live as long as 80 years, yet she produces only a small number of calves over her lifetime.
From Science Daily
My answer is psychology—the psychology of the elephant in the room.
Only about 30 of these oversize beasts, the largest specimens of Earth’s largest land animal, currently exist in Kenya, where this “Nature” program studies the elephants living within Amboseli National Park.
Indianapolis Zoo – My wife and I met at the circus when they last toured with elephants.
From Salon
But there was an immense elephant in that grand and glittering Paris meeting and the underlying atmosphere was extremely tense.
From BBC
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