How to Use elephant in a Sentence

elephant

noun
  • Their leaves looked like elephant ears.
    — Manuel Muñoz, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
  • So there’s yeah, there’s um, there’s an elephant trail.
    — AFAR Media, 30 May 2026
  • She was later asked to pose as an elephant.
    — Bailey Bujnosek, InStyle, 17 Feb. 2026
  • Trump is the elephant who never got that memo.
    — Matt K. Lewis, Mercury News, 15 Aug. 2025
  • The team ended up with a jar of elephant dung scent.
    — Rj MacKenzie, Popular Science, 11 June 2026
  • Peg would love to play in the mud with baby elephants.
    — Liza Esquibias, PEOPLE, 4 Sep. 2025
  • The door opened and a big elephant stomped into the board room.
    — Jerry Shnay, Chicago Tribune, 27 Jan. 2025
  • Watch two baby elephants play in the mud.
    — Cate Martel, The Hill, 6 Jan. 2026
  • Each one is heavier than an elephant and as big as a school bus.
    — Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, 1 Dec. 2020
  • Hosmer doesn’t need to try and eat this elephant in one bite.
    — Bryce Miller Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 July 2021
  • The elephant took a few more steps towards us, and then stopped.
    — Holden Frith, TheWeek, 9 Jan. 2026
  • An elephant wading through piles of trash.
    — Meghan Pryce, CNN Money, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Didn't get a chance to eat buttery corn on the cob and elephant ears?
    — Lilly St. Angelo, The Indianapolis Star, 24 Aug. 2021
  • As the old saying goes, don’t try to eat an elephant in one bite.
    — Bob Rhatigan, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026
  • That weight is roughly the size of school bus or two grown elephants.
    — Hollie Silverman, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Mar. 2026
  • The weight of beans made in one day equals that of 24 elephants.
    — Samantha Agate, Kansas City Star, 1 Apr. 2026
  • The group dropped the elephant and dispersed.
    — Liam Adams, Nashville Tennessean, 26 Oct. 2025
  • But there’s a lot left to learn about the young elephant, Barthel says.
    — Vicky Hallett, Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2022
  • So if bits of snake, tree and rope can do the job, why bother with the elephant?
    — John Pavlus, Quanta Magazine, 2 Sep. 2025
  • The fat Ganesha with his elephant head and pudgy man body.
    — Literary Hub, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Osh the African elephant makes quick work of a whole coconut.
    — Fox News, 5 Apr. 2024
  • The elephants that crowd the edges of the film are more than atmosphere.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 18 May 2026
  • The elephant has spent nearly two decades in chains, living in a shed.
    — Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 24 Mar. 2021
  • If elephants never forget, then that will make two of us.
    — Holden Frith, TheWeek, 9 Jan. 2026
  • Within a few years, the park had goats, monkeys and more elephants.
    — Drake Bentley, Journal Sentinel, 8 Oct. 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
  • While the elephant deaths have ceased, the cause has remained a mystery.
    — Rachel Nuwer, Star Tribune, 24 Sep. 2020
  • The erratic is shaped like an elephant’s head, with a large ear and trunk.
    — Chelsey Lewis, Journal Sentinel, 23 June 2022
  • The prince is huddling next to an elephant that fell a small distance from the rest.
    — Klara Glowczewska, Town & Country, 28 Sep. 2021
  • Spike had sired three elephant calves at other zoos, but none survived.
    — Jasmine Baehr, FOXNews.com, 4 Feb. 2026

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