How to use elephant in a sentence

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• The circus trainer cracked the whip, signaling the elephant to trumpet.From the entry trumpet
• You have to break an elephant before you can use it as an animal of burden.From the entry break
• By the end of the 20th century elephants had become scarce even in Africa.From the entry scarce
• Until the CITES sales ban, elephant tusks were the 'backbone' of the legal ivory trade.From the entry tusk
• The zoomorphic Hindu god Ganesha has the head of an elephant.From the entry zoomorphic
• I remember lying by the side of the road watching the pink elephants dancing by.From the entry pink elephant
• As poachers target elephants with large tusks, the species may be slowly evolving towards tusklessness.From the entry tusklessness
• Elephants are big animals, and they eat a lot.From the entry big
• Only the male Indian elephant bears tusks.From the entry bear
• The dassie is the closest living relative to the elephant.From the entry dassie
• We adopted an elephant at the local zoo.From the entry adopt
• An elephant is comparable in size to a double-decker bus.From the entry comparable
• An adult elephant weighs around five tons.From the entry around
• A war elephant described rampaging through Tenochtitlan in a novel about the Aztec Empire would be an anatopism.From the entry anatopism
• Mounted on the wall was a full-bore elephant gun.From the entry full-bore
• Mediportal animals include the bison, elephant, and rhinoceros.From the entry mediportal
• Try to imagine a pink elephant.From the entry imagine
• The elephant was frightened by mice.From the entry frightened
• Elephants and manatees are unusual among mammals because they are polyphyodonts. Most mammals are diphyodonts, replacing their teeth only once in their lives.From the entry polyphyodont
• The square-cube law helps to explain why large mammals like elephants have a harder time cooling themselves than smaller ones like mice.From the entry square-cube law
• To show he doesn’t do his fair share of work, I’ve set him an elephant trap. If he falls in he’ll look like a clown.From the entry elephant trap
• The elephant in the room, you know, we had a stroke back in May.2022 October 25, 32:11 from the start, Vote 2022, in Joseph Camp, director, PBS NewsHour (television production), spoken by John…. From the entry we
• Brown triumphantly astride her headstanding elephant, arms raised high, her elaborate headdress perfectly in place.2021 July 23, Neil Genzlinger, “Alice Clark Brown, Black Star in a White Circus, Dies at 68”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The…. From the entry headstand
• Which means elephant races aren’t over until both trucks are back in the travel lane.2021 September 9, “The Truth About 18-Wheeler Elephant Races”, in Wood Law Firm, archived from the original on 29 Jan 2026. From the entry elephant race
• But it's not a shrew and it doesn't really look like an elephant.2019, Martin Brown, Even More Lesser Spotted Animals, Scholastic Incorporated, page 16. From the entry elephantish
• The Bronx Zoo elephants "settle into the strike's popcornless daze," joke one reporter.2016, Daniel E. Bender, The Animal Game, Harvard University Press, →ISBN. From the entry popcornless
• A daily newspaper is a great lake in which intellectual elephants can swim and lambs can paddle.2013, Philip Howard, “What is the correct term?”, in Modern Manners: The Essential Guide to Correct Behaviour and Etiquette, London: The…. From the entry blondin
• I suppose every garden has one: an elephants' graveyard of discarded labels.2012, Katerine Swift, The Morville Year. From the entry elephants' graveyard
• There is an elephant in the room that nearly every politician and green campaigner is ignoring.2008 January 6, Nicholas Rufford, “Motormouth: The car of the future, at £1,300”, in Sunday Times (UK), archived from the original on 05…. From the entry elephant in the room
• Tourists will come to the Mavuradonha to see elephants and sables, not mombies."2008, Dick Pitman, A Wild Life: Adventures of an Accidental Conservationist, →ISBN, page 124. From the entry mombie
• What would the sick do without the sight of elephants to invigorate them?2008, Paul Chambers, Jumbo: This Being the True Story of the Greatest Elephant in the World, Hanover, New Hampshire: Steerforth Press…. From the entry elephantless
• Then he says let′s have a geek at some of the elephant pictures instead.2005, Carmel Bird, The Essential Bird, unnumbered page. From the entry geek
• Elephants will assist you, in ways you can't imagine, to remember the good times.2005, David Kettle, Elephant Gnosis, page 80. From the entry pachydermal
• "A mimophant is a hybrid species: a cross between a mimosa and an elephant.2004, David Edmonds, John Eidinow, Bobby Fischer Goes To War, page 24. From the entry mimophant
• The mimosa is reputed to curl up when touched; the elephant - well!2003, James Lees-Milne, Beneath A Waning Moon; Diaries, 1985–1987, page 31. From the entry mimophant
• Depredation of cultivated crops by elephants is widespread in both Africa and Asia.2003, The Living Elephants: Evolutionary Ecology, Behavior, and Conservation, by R. Sukumar, page 299. From the entry depredation
• 'She says Indian elephants are tidgy little things.' 'They're not then.' Emma was getting heated.2001, Eric Malpass, At the Height of the Moon. From the entry tidgy
• A brick-breaker kind of game featuring musical symbols (rests and notes), an elephant, and a ball!2000, NewestShareware.com, “NewestShareware.com Issue #105”, in alt.comp.shareware (Usenet). From the entry brick breaker
• The artists are forced endlessly to carve figures of elephants and leographs of chinthes.1998, Feroz Kapadia, South East Asia: Burma, Cambodia, Anmol publications, page 85. From the entry endlessly
• In the menagerie of subcontinental art, the horse and elephant are most common.1997, Henry Glassie, Art and Life in Bangladesh, Indiana University Press, published 1997, →ISBN, page 283. From the entry subcontinental

Meaning of elephant

1. noun A large mammal of the family Elephantidae in the order Proboscidea, having a trunk, and native to Africa and Asia.
2. noun Anything huge and ponderous.
3. noun Synonym of elephant paper.

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Questions about elephant in a sentence

How do you use elephant in a sentence?

Elephant is used as a noun. For example: “The circus trainer cracked the whip, signaling the elephant to trumpet.”

What is a short sentence with elephant?

“The elephant was frightened by mice.”

What does elephant mean?

Elephant means a large mammal of the family Elephantidae in the order Proboscidea, having a trunk, and native to Africa and Asia.