How to Use elephant in a Sentence

elephant

noun
  • The zoo was not open to the public at the time of the 12-year-old bull elephant's death.
    — Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE.com, 24 June 2021
  • The elephant isn’t just in the room, it’s sprawled across both of your laps, singing show tunes.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2023
  • The door opened and a big elephant stomped into the board room.
    — Jerry Shnay, Chicago Tribune, 27 Jan. 2025
  • But there’s a lot left to learn about the young elephant, Barthel says.
    — Vicky Hallett, Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2022
  • The rest of the elephants then also joined the rampage.
    — David Faris, Newsweek, 10 July 2024
  • That's about the same as four blue whales or 100 African elephants.
    — Ina Fried, Axios, 10 Jan. 2025
  • Osh the African elephant makes quick work of a whole coconut.
    — Fox News, 5 Apr. 2024
  • For a time, the elephant was the ultimate weapon of war.
    — Amanda Foreman, WSJ, 5 Aug. 2021
  • This was one of the last of the elephant kin in North America.
    — Peter Brannen, The Atlantic, 22 June 2022
  • The elephant would just leave a pile of kindling there.
    — Françoise Mouly, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2022
  • Didn't get a chance to eat buttery corn on the cob and elephant ears?
    — Lilly St. Angelo, The Indianapolis Star, 24 Aug. 2021
  • The elephant in the living room, of course, is emissions.
    — David Blackmon, Forbes, 28 Apr. 2021
  • The elephant in aisle 1 The shadow of Walmart looms over the dispute.
    — J.j. McCorvey, NBC News, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Tim got on a roll about a story about Siamese elephants joined at the trunk.
    — Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Apr. 2023
  • In 2024, at least eleven people were killed by elephants in the town.
    — Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 27 Mar. 2025
  • Because the elephant is still alive, LaPierre and the group move closer to it.
    — NBC News, 28 Apr. 2021
  • The second elephant in the theater is, of course, the cross-dressing.
    — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 5 Dec. 2021
  • The prince is huddling next to an elephant that fell a small distance from the rest.
    — Klara Glowczewska, Town & Country, 28 Sep. 2021
  • During the day, the group sculpted a statue of an elephant out of mud.
    — Dino Grandoni and Kim Bellware, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Hosmer doesn’t need to try and eat this elephant in one bite.
    — Bryce Miller Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 July 2021
  • Five African elephants reside at the park, two of them 7-year-old calves.
    — Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 15 Apr. 2025
  • Here’s the test: For two minutes, please don’t think about a big pink elephant.
    — Micah Solomon, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2021
  • Costly court battles led to the end of elephant acts in 2016.
    — Mark Kennedy, Sun Sentinel, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Costly court battles led to the end of elephant acts in 2016.
    — Mark Kennedy, Fortune, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Most of the tools were made from the bones of elephants, hippopotamuses and bovids.
    — Brittney Melton, NPR, 10 Mar. 2025
  • The erratic is shaped like an elephant’s head, with a large ear and trunk.
    — Chelsey Lewis, Journal Sentinel, 23 June 2022
  • Within a few years, the park had goats, monkeys and more elephants.
    — Drake Bentley, Journal Sentinel, 8 Oct. 2024
  • The monkeys and elephants are long-gone, and the casino has seen better days.
    — Will Yakowicz, Forbes, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Tigers, elephants, rhinos, and green peafowl no longer walked here.
    — ArsTechnica, 24 Apr. 2025
  • The animals come together to form a tight circle around a young elephant.
    — David Caraccio, Sacbee.com, 15 Apr. 2025

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