elephant

Example Sentences

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Nor did he make any mention of the elephant in the room - or any room the Beckhams set foot in - the recent family drama involving his estranged older brother Brooklyn.

From BBC

Mr. Herzog, who with his intensely dramatic yet dryly matter-of-fact vocal stylings lends the feature his typically scintillating narration, follows him on a journey to Namibia and Angola in search of the ghost elephants.

From The Wall Street Journal

He thought so much of that little old farm of ours, he wouldn’t have stopped working to watch a herd of elephants march down the road.

From Literature

"We are here to visit Bali Zoo... so we were trying to visit the elephants but due to this condition we couldn’t do this," 28-year-old Mexican national Briana Palacios told AFP.

From Barron's

At the same time, oxygen isotope analysis of fossil tooth enamel revealed that the pygmy elephants depended heavily on river water that became harder to find s conditions grew drier.

From Science Daily