elephantine

Example Sentences

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It is often assumed that elephantine ponderousness is the price that must be paid for their storytelling heft.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 2026

But a few kinds of mammals, like our elephantine friends and our fellow primates, have arrangements of mammary tissue on the chest.

From Slate • Aug. 13, 2024

As the 2000s wrapped up and the hip-hop aesthetic moved from elephantine jean shorts and Air Force 1s, Cena’s character became a more generic good guy in a colorful T-shirt.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 14, 2023

By the 1960s, Mr. Lorayne was best known for holding audiences rapt with feats of memory that bordered on the elephantine.

From New York Times • Apr. 7, 2023

He danced an elephantine jig, stomping snow on the carpet, flung a long woolen scarf from his neck, and yelled, "Otis Amber is here, the roads are clear!"

From "The Westing Game" by Ellen Raskin