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How to use tusk in a sentence

17 example sentences · noun, verb

Tusk means one of a pair of elongated pointed teeth (either cuspids or incisors) that extend outside the mouth of an animal such as walrus, elephant or wild boar, and which continue to grow throughout the animal's life. Example: “Until the CITES sales ban, elephant tusks were the 'backbone' of the legal ivory trade.”

Examples of tusk by meaning

nounOne of a pair of elongated pointed teeth (either cuspids or incisors) that extend outside the mouth of an animal such...

  • Until the CITES sales ban, elephant tusks were the 'backbone' of the legal ivory trade.

More sentences with tusk

  • As poachers target elephants with large tusks, the species may be slowly evolving towards tusklessness.From the entry tusklessness
  • Only the male Indian elephant bears tusks.From the entry bear
  • A boar hooving the dust in anticipation of sinking a tusk into her flank?2016, Boris Fishman, Don’t Let My Baby Do Rodeo, New York, N.Y.: Harper, →ISBN, page 231. From the entry hoove
  • With his grand odobene mustache, he had everything but the tusks.2011 April 1, John McPhee, The Ransom of Russian Art, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 8. From the entry odobene
  • "Who wants to know?" The Critic grinned at her, baring frighteningly long tusks: "I am Sister Seventh.2004, Charles Stross, Singularity Sky - Page 314. From the entry warfully
  • Most Aboriginal drawings show the Bunyip with a tail like a horse, and flippers and tusks like a walrus.2008, Oliver Ho, Mysteries Unwrapped: Mutants & Monsters, page 26. From the entry bunyip
  • Some cattle are bought with the elephant tusks, they may not be used for the garo calf, they are mingi.1979, Jean Lydall, Ivo A. Strecker, The Hamar of Southern Ethiopia: Baldambe explains, page 75. From the entry mingi
  • Two kinds were on the market: Unicornum Verum (Alicorn), thought to be Mammoth Tusk, and Unicornum Falsum, Narwhal tusks.1945, Patrick Henry Yancey, Origins from mythology of biological names and terms, page 46. From the entry alicorn
  • The tusks of the strap-toothed whale grow up and across the snout, like a bone ribbon that ties the mouth nearly shut.2021 March 30, J. B. MacKinnon, “An Entire Group of Whales Has Somehow Escaped Human Attention”, in The Atlantic. From the entry teuthivorous
  • And there are wild pigs, babirusas, with wrinkled skin and impressive upper tusks that instead of growing down, grow up and backwards toward the skull.2018 May 17, Hanneke Meijer, The Guardian. From the entry babirusa
  • At over 2.5 m in length, the tusk of the male narwhal (Monodon monoceros) is one the most impressive instruments of male-male competition among mammals.2000, Richard C. Connor, Andrew J. Read, Richard Wrangham, edited by Janet Mann, Cetacean Societies: Field Studies of Dolphins and Whales…. From the entry narwhal
  • Nick himself might have carried – steak knives carved from walrus tusks, and, among other things, a fresh moose roast and a package of mooseburger!1962, Amistad: Magazine of American Society of Mexico. From the entry mooseburger
  • We saw many small animals, such as porcupines, a scaly ant-eater, and a wild pig, piebald in color and with long curved tusks.1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC. From the entry piebald
  • The guards in the king's retinue had tried to Greekify their helmets by sewing on pieces of boar tusk, though the tusky chunks flapped around like hangnails.2019, Bryan Furuness, My Name Was Never Frankenstein: And Other Classic Adventure Tales Remixed, Indiana University Press, →ISBN. From the entry Greekify
  • A model of the grice - which was the size of a large dog and had tusks - has been created after work by researchers and a taxidermist.2006 November 17, “Extinct island pig spotted again”, in BBC News. From the entry grice
  • "great beasts that resembled huge brown haystacks" and had long, long teeth — tusks, no doubt — so it seems incontrovertible that mastodons and woolly mammoths are meant.1990, Neil Rolde, Maine: A Narrative History, page 9. From the entry pachydermic

Meaning of tusk

  1. noun One of a pair of elongated pointed teeth (either cuspids or incisors) that extend outside the mouth of an animal such as walrus, elephant or wild boar, and which continue to grow throughout the animal's life.
  2. noun A small projection on a (tusk) tenon.
  3. noun A tusk shell.

Full definition of tusk

Questions about tusk in a sentence

How do you use tusk in a sentence?
Tusk is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Until the CITES sales ban, elephant tusks were the 'backbone' of the legal ivory trade.”
What is a short sentence with tusk?
“Only the male Indian elephant bears tusks.”
What does tusk mean?
Tusk means one of a pair of elongated pointed teeth (either cuspids or incisors) that extend outside the mouth of an animal such as walrus, elephant or wild boar, and which continue to grow throughout the animal's life.

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