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

“My wobbling, elephantine car is no match for his agile V12 Mercedes, but I somehow keep up,” he writes.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2025

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

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

Ignatius picked up one of his elephantine desert boots and flung it at the pirouetting figure.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole