elephant

Example Sentences

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"In Wayanad, going into the plantation at night is risky. We have snakes, wild boars, sometimes even leopards and elephants," he says.

From BBC

Naturalist Stephen Boyes believes massive elephants live undetected on a remote plateau in Angola; they’d be descendants of a giant pachyderm hunted and killed 70 years ago that now resides in the Smithsonian.

From Los Angeles Times

“She was just going to tell me about her elephant,” he protested loudly, tugging at my hand, trying to break away from me.

From Literature

Number two: the Roman historian Livy’s book about the Second Punic War, with Rome against the invading North African armies from Carthage and Hannibal’s war elephants crossing the Alps.

From The Wall Street Journal

Originally known as shrews, the small African mammals are more closely related to elephants, manatees and aardvarks and were officially renamed as sengi in 1998.

From BBC