How to use walrus in a sentence

11 example sentences · noun, verb

Walrus means a large Arctic pinniped having long tusks, tough, wrinkled skin, and four flippers, Odobenus rosmarus. Example: “For quotations using this term, see Citations:walrii.”

Examples of walrus by meaning

verbTo hunt walruses.

It's strange to see parties of merrymakers gather where I nearly drowned, and later walrused with David Isaakovich, Father Basil and the rest of them.2016, Andrey Kurkov, The President's Last Love, Kiev, 9 May 1985

verbTo move dragging one's belly along the floor.

Gaddy walrused herself from the back seat2020, Will Ferguson, The Finder: A Novel

verbTo hang like a walrus's moustache.

His untrimmed mustache walrused down and over his hidden mouth2000, Michael L. McCoy, The Hunter, the Hound and a Rogue

verbTo be prominent, like tusks.

Where a mammal had its canine teeth, great fangs walrused down from the grezzen's upper jaw, as long as scimitars and as thick as human thighs.2011, Robert Buettner, Overkill

More sentences with walrus

For quotations using this term, see Citations:walrii.From the entry walrii
Her bed was not made of soft bearskins, but of hard walrus hide.1991, Joseph Bruchac, Native American Stories, from Keepers of the Earth, Fulcrum Publishing, Golden, →ISBN, page 67. From the entry fishskin
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
The bones not chewed by Eskimos are those of the blubber-carrying sea mammals — seal, walrus, whale, polar bear.1956, Vilhjalmur Stefansson, The Fat of the Land: Enl. Ed. of Not by Bread Alone, New York: Macmillan. From the entry chewably
A large-bellied, red-faced man with a greying walrus moustache stood there clad only in trousers and a collarless shirt.1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954. From the entry walrus moustache
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
If he did but possess one of those great, thick walrus hides, leather vastly tough and heavy, he stood some chance of getting back to the land of his tribespeople.1930, Alice Alison Lide, Margaret Alison Johansen, chapter VI, in Ood-le-uk the Wanderer, page 75. From the entry tribespeople

Meaning of walrus

noun A large Arctic pinniped having long tusks, tough, wrinkled skin, and four flippers, Odobenus rosmarus.
noun A man with a walrus moustache.
verb To hunt walruses.

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Questions about walrus in a sentence

How do you use walrus in a sentence?: Walrus is used as a noun and verb. For example: “For quotations using this term, see Citations:walrii.”
What is a short sentence with walrus?: “For quotations using this term, see Citations:walrii.”
What does walrus mean?: Walrus means a large Arctic pinniped having long tusks, tough, wrinkled skin, and four flippers, Odobenus rosmarus.

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