Example sentences for: mammoth

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

  • Two thousand Soviet engineers arrived to help with the mammoth project to stem the annual floods that plagued the country, and provide hydroelectricity to power a growth in industry.

  • The government's spin: Mammoth companies reduce competition, so consumers are the losers.

  • Though less original and not as fully realized, these books reminded me of a pair of recent literary appreciations: Hermione Lee's mammoth biography of Virginia Woolf, and Alain de Botton's idiosyncratic, obsessive How Proust Can Change Your Life . All four books share a playful disregard for the rules that usually govern high-minded "intellectual" biographies.

  • Dutch paleontologist Dick Mol said it about a nearly intact woolly mammoth recovered from the Siberian permafrost last week.

  • Providing quality health care to those who differ from a country's majority population in terms of language and culture (and often race) is a mammoth task that does not yield to easy or quick fixes, but rather to consistent and determined efforts at improvement.


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