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• Vermont will open elk hunting season next week.From the entry open
• The bear raised his head to the sound, then moved toward the elk to protect its kill.2017, Robin F. Gainey, Light of the Northern Dancers. From the entry upmountain
• Palmer parted the towering saltgrass and pickleweed downwind of the elk.2009 September 13, Michael Brick, “Stalking a Majestic Beast With an Eye on the Record Book”, in New York Times. From the entry saltgrass
• Elhaz signifies the elk and the sedge plant, both noted for their ability to protect.2007, Christina Pratt, An Encyclopedia of Shamanism, volume 2, The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc, →ISBN, page 403. From the entry Elhaz
• In the pretty, tranquil valley, elk were feeding just off the highway, creating a gapers block.2001, "Rocky Road Rocky Mountain National Park boasts as ear-popping drive full of peak experiences," Wichita Eagle (Kansas), 25 Mar., p. 1G. From the entry gapers' block
• The bone usually employed in making the needle was the metapodiale bone of the deer and elk.1907, William Corless Mills, Explorations of the Edwin Harness mound, page 56. From the entry metapodiale
• To use Carol Adams's language, to shoot an elk in a “hunting” preserve is to ontologize it as a trophy.2012, J. Claude Evans, With Respect for Nature: Living as Part of the Natural World, →ISBN, page 156. From the entry ontologize
• It isn't just billies that enter the bleak season with rut-depleted fat reserves, but rams, bull elk, buck deer, and others.2002, Douglas H. Chadwick, A Beast the Color of Winter: The Mountain Goat Observed, page 159. From the entry billy
• Onkel Jean restaurant is praised for its 'delicious elk steaks'.1999, Peter Hardy, Felice Eyston, editors, The Good Skiing and Snowboarding Guide 2000: The Essential Guide to What’s What and Where’s…. From the entry ski-thru
• The elk, swans and woodgrouse are no more.1998, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Ronald Hingley, Five Plays, Oxford University Press, USA, →ISBN, page 148. From the entry odd
• Sometimes when we popped over a ridgeline, we would see a herd of caribou, a rangale of deer, and occasionally a small gang of elk.2025, Dominic M. Martin, Dad: A Son Remembers, Austin Macauley Publishers. From the entry rangale
• A bull elk can easily cover miles of rugged country in no time, especially if he is wounded or on the run.2021 [2001], John Eldredge, chapter 1, in Wild at Heart, Expanded edition, Nelson Books, →ISBN, page 2. From the entry bull
• Among the capreolines can be counted the roe deer, the moose, the reindeer and most American deer species (with the notable exception of the elk).2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 106. From the entry capreoline
• Thence he passed to the huge and ferocious bird, the phororachus, and to the great elk which still roams upon this upland.1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC. From the entry phororachus
• One day he ran into a herd of a half dozen elk, so he rode his mule down the canyon three or four miles, leaving the sheep alone.2017, Robert S. McPherson, Cowboying In Canyon Country, Dog Ear Publishing, →ISBN, page 200. From the entry mule
• Procter had a handsome half-breed girl with him and two splendid elk heads and meat on his packhorses that he was taking to Fort Lincoln for sale.2009, Victor Grant Smith, edited by Jeanette Prodgers, The Champion Buffalo Hunter: The Frontier Memoirs of Yellowstone Vic Smith, Revised…. From the entry packhorse
• Early next morning we were over at the elk carcass, and, as we expected, found that the bear had eaten his full at it during the night.2008, Jay Cassell, The Gigantic Book Of Hunting Stories. From the entry full
• From the darkness came the howls of routs of wolves and bands of coyotes, the rumbling growls of a sleuth of bears or the bugles of a gang of elk.2007, Elinor DeWire, The Lightkeepers’ Menagerie: Stories of Animals at Lighthouses, page 200. From the entry sleuth
• The mindset of the hunter is split between focus on gathering visual or sound information regarding the elk and remaining unseen, unscented, and unheard, thus avoiding detection by the elk.2005, Tom Airhart, Elk Hunting Guide. From the entry unscented

Meaning of elk

1. noun Any of the subspecies of the moose (Alces alces, the largest member of the deer family, alternatively named Eurasian elk to avoid confusion with the wapiti), that occurs only in Europe and Asia.
2. noun Common wapiti (Cervus canadensis), the second largest member of the deer family, once thought to be a subspecies of red deer.
3. noun Sambar (Cervus unicolor).

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How do you use elk in a sentence?

Elk is used as a noun. For example: “Vermont will open elk hunting season next week.”

What is a short sentence with elk?

“The elk, swans and woodgrouse are no more.”

What does elk mean?

Elk means any of the subspecies of the moose (Alces alces, the largest member of the deer family, alternatively named Eurasian elk to avoid confusion with the wapiti), that occurs only in Europe and Asia.