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

It feels less oppressive, less elephantine, lighter and more graceful on its feet.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 23, 2022

Despite Casey’s protestations, the dog somehow ends up in her backpack, and when Clifford blows up to elephantine proportions, it sets off a series of wild adventures through the city.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 9, 2021

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 • Jan. 17, 2020

Don Guillermo looked like an oafish policeman, right down to his elephantine ears and the brass buttons on his cuffs.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García