Example sentences for: elephant

How can you use “elephant” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • A motley crowd is hurrying by--workers in dungarees; a yogi with his followers; a noblewoman in purdah in palanquin; a group of nautch girls, attractive in their aniline-dyed dresses and bright bandanas, their bangles jingling and their long, shampooed hair streaming in the breeze; a sepoy all smart in khaki on his horse, his jodhpurs trim and neat; a scholarly pundit; a mahout on his elephant, ambling like a juggernaut.

  • Who, after all, really wants to step in elephant dung?

  • Staff members of the Indianapolis Zoo coordinate the national SSP's for the African elephant, rock iguana (cyclura) and the ring-tailed lemur.

  • On January 29,1999, the Zoo received the exciting news that a second elephant, 17 year-old Ivory, had also conceived a calf.

  • ' Other loanwords which have acquired changed meanings include chitra `axis deer,' from citra `spotted'; hathi `gray,' from hathi `elephant'; pukka `genuine, reliable, good,' from pakka `cooked, ripe, mature'; puttee `soldier's legging,' from patti `bandage'; pyke `civilian at whose expense a soldier is treated,' from payik `messenger'; and toddy `type of hot drink,' from tari `palmyra palm juice.


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