- plural of elephant.
elephants
Example Sentences
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“It just incenses me because when the elephants are fighting, it’s the grass that always suffers,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
Pesticides prohibited in Kenya are sometimes smuggled across this porous border with Tanzania and used in farms within the Amboseli area, where elephants live near human settlements and are known to raid farms for food.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
A ban on "hulla parties" -- groups deployed to drive elephants away using "fireballs" and burning stakes -- is required, it said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026
"Maternal age effects are incredibly common, from invertebrates up through humans, elephants, other primates and other mammals," said Kristin Gribble, an associate scientist in the Bay Paul Center at the Marine Biological Laboratory.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 2026
Ironically, this fearlessness scared his father, and it was a constant source of worry for him, especially when they were hunting lions, elephants, and rhinoceroses in Africa together.
From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple
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