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Example sentences for: tortoises

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Flanking the steps leading to the courtyard and standing on statues of tortoises are two bronze elephants with praying riders on their backs.
Another ship full of large rubber tortoises is shot down by a ship full of large rubber hippos.
Suddenly, an enormous black shadow passes over the desert, and large rubber tortoises with small bird heads emerge from a spaceship shaped like a large rubber tortoise foot and kill the archaeologist.
I had no idea what the Stones were, but it eventually turned out that they represent the Four Elements, and that the rubber tortoises, before being shot down, had left them in the care of a blue-skinned opera diva with long hoses (bellows?)
Then it appears that the large rubber tortoises are good guys, and perhaps didn't mean to kill him.