Example sentences for: hippopotamus

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

  • Hippopotamus , from Greek, is a `horse that swims in a river.

  • , he could set off a small nuclear device while simultaneously engaged in an unnatural act with a hippopotamus in the middle of the Grand-Place in Brussels, and even the Times would probably give it three column inches on Page A13.

  • When the Greeks first saw a huge animal in Egypt, they called it hippopotamus , the Greek word for `water horse.

  • To confuse matters still further there are road signs in Africa marked ELEPHANT and HIPPOPOTAMUS CROSSING which mean just that.


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