Example sentences for: elephant

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

  • The ancient bronzes are covered with metamorphosing animal shapes--an elephant whose trunk has turned into a dragon, and whose legs are incised with tigers ("stucco'd with quadrupeds and birds all over," as Whitman wrote of himself).

  • Your gift not only helps with the care of animal and plant collections and daily expenses of running the Zoo and Gardens, but also provides the needed funding of special projects like African elephant research and construction of new holding facilities.

  • In July 1998 the Indianapolis Zoo announced a milestone in elephant conservation-the first conception of a female African elephant by artificial insemination.

  • Rudolph Giuliani has managed to make himself a laughingstock to the cognoscenti by threatening to de-fund the Brooklyn Museum of Art if it doesn't cancel an art show that includes (according to today's New York Times ) "a portrait of the Virgin Mary stained with a clump of elephant dung."

  • You will find one pinnacle in the image of an “Elephant on a Stone Terrace” and another like a “Rhinoceros Looking at the Moon.”


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