Example sentences for: elephant

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

  • It's the way the twins (played by co-writers Mark Polish and Michael Polish, who also directed the film) are photographed to look so wanly beautiful and dear , like the hero of the play (not the David Lynch movie) The Elephant Man . They seem enigmatic when whispering in each other's ears, but when you actually hear what they're saying it's so humdrum that you wonder why they even bother to talk.

  • Still, I'm Pro Elephant Dung.

  • ' 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.

  • In any case, one hardly hears anything else today but these can forms, which have somehow become the fashion: It can happen , We could be wrong . What we are therefore observing is the loss of a valuable distinction, and in fact the slow extinction of the verb may/might , an extinction which in the linguistic world seems to me just as distressing as the loss of the elephant in the zoological world.

  • ARTHUR: If you mean that succès de scandale where the artist showcased a border-control barrier with a Cupid's arrow and Naomi Campbell 4 The Elephant Man scrawled on it --


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