Example sentences for: tusk

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

  • A team of scientists was directed to the site by local residents who found a tusk sticking up from the ground, reports the Los Angeles Times wire service.

  • Don’t worry about the risk to endangered animal species — most Egyptian ivory is camel or donkey bone, not elephant tusk.

  • The mammoth, dubbed Zharkov after the local man who discovered its tusk, was a 9-foot-tall adult male, about 47 years old at the time of death; it would have looked like a hairy elephant to the modern eye, much like ...

  • One who stammered or had some other speech defect, might be Tartaglia (tartagliare to stutter), Cianciulli (cianciugliare to mutter), Sannella (sanna is an archaic form of zanna tusk), or Mezzalingua ( mezza half, lingua tongue).

  • But only an expert can distinguish between a genuine tusk and substitute material.


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