elephantine

Example Sentences

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Not to be overlooked is Russell Westbrook, who turned in six consecutive triple-doubles on the trip after weeks of carrying an elephantine load with so many key teammates out.

From Washington Post

And in “the ultimate expression of sheer, elephantine joy,” the animals then let loose with bladder and bowels.

From Washington Post

Perhaps someday soon I can meet Mo and we can have a friendly lunch while wearing those elephantine gas masks.

From Washington Post

Virginia Woolf described his masterpiece, “Hydriotaphia,” a survey of funerary customs, as “a cathedral where the organ goes plunging and soaring and indulging in vast and elephantine gambols of awful yet grotesque sublimity.”

From New York Times

Growths the size of golf balls bulged out of his forearm and elephantine ankles.

From Washington Post