How to Use pachyderm in a Sentence

pachyderm

noun
  • The pachyderms take the path of least resistance and keep out.
    — Matt Jancer, WIRED, 12 Dec. 2013
  • The rock the pavilion rests on looks like some giant pachyderm.
    — Holland Cotter, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2017
  • Morgan’s long march comes as a welcome reprieve from all the bad news in the pachyderm world.
    — Jeffrey Gettleman, New York Times, 17 Mar. 2016
  • With the power to put down a pachyderm, this rifle roars at the muzzle and bites at the butt-stock.
    — Richard Mann, Field & Stream, 17 Sep. 2019
  • The pachyderms seemed to be fine, if sluggish, until the sonic booms began.
    — Hana Kiros, The Atlantic, 3 July 2026
  • The heads of the pachyderms are low and rounded, their tusks bearing a peculiar curve to them, and their ears are too small.
    — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Mar. 2025
  • Wilstem offers a once-in-a-lifetime chance to bathe one of three elephants, love on them and learn more about the peaceful pachyderms.
    — Sarah Bahr, Indianapolis Star, 11 July 2018
  • Dreiser, playing so well the part of the pachyderm, seemed completely undisturbed.
    — John Dos Passos, National Review, 28 Sep. 2020
  • For the rhinos and elephants, staff fill up large mud wallows with water sources for the pachyderms to roll around in or use to spray themselves.
    — Martin Vassolo, Axios, 24 July 2024
  • One elephant was killed and two others were injured after a truck carrying five pachyderms crashed on a highway.
    — Travis Fedschun, Fox News, 2 Apr. 2018
  • Thanks to the quick, collected thinking of the pachyderm pair, the calf walked away from the incident uninjured.
    — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 23 June 2017
  • Elephant figurines, including a pachyderm piggy bank, perch on tables and shelves.
    — Joanne Kaufman, New York Times, 26 May 2017
  • Animal rights activists argued that zoo enclosures were no place for big-brained, social pachyderms.
    — Jennifer Peltz, Fortune, 28 May 2026
  • Animal rights activists argued that zoo enclosures were no place for big-brained, social pachyderms.
    — CBS News, 27 May 2026
  • Madukkarai is located in an elephant corridor that has been used by migrating pachyderms for thousands of years.
    — Steve Winter, National Geographic, 22 July 2016
  • One particularly talented pachyderm, a female called Pawan, could squeak and snort at the same time.
    — Karen Hopkin, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2021
  • Around 20 million years ago there lived a prehistoric pachyderm named Deinotherium with twin, curved tusks curving down from the jaw.
    — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Dec. 2020
  • But animal welfare groups say the pachyderms are not better off in their new home, citing concerns about their physical and mental health.
    — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2026
  • As Michael Safi reports for The Guardian, the poor pachyderm appears to have been caught up in a current and swept out to sea.
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 13 July 2017
  • The ultimate goals are to help law enforcement and policy-makers shut down the ivory market and raise public awareness of the plight of pachyderms.
    — Bloomberg.com, 15 Jan. 2018
  • But an elderly pachyderm named Mary has perfected the technique by using a hose as a showerhead, much in the way humans do.
    — Bysara Reardon, science.org, 8 Nov. 2024
  • The pachyderm's just an appetizer, however, and the hungry creatures soon turn their attention to the tasty humans.
    — Matt Cabral, EW.com, 2 Jan. 2023
  • As for the elephant in the room — or lack thereof — the absence of a real pachyderm is dealt with through the occasional sound effect and imagination.
    — Matthew J. Palm, OrlandoSentinel.com, 17 Mar. 2018
  • After analyzing all the data, the thoughtful pachyderm chose the Eagles.
    — PEOPLE.com, 2 Feb. 2018
  • The weight of the elephant’s trunk pillar contributed 28 percent of the force the pachyderm needed to compress the wheat brain pile into a solid lump.
    — Roni Dengler, Discover Magazine, 23 Oct. 2018
  • His sister, Joyce, is one of the world's leading authorities on African pachyderm behavior.
    — Benjamin Hunting, Car and Driver, 9 June 2023
  • The smooth pachyderm criminal managed to sneak out of his exhibit at the Florida zoo through a door that was accidentally left open.
    — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 18 June 2018
  • In the 1967 film, the elephants are amusingly buffoonish and march in a pachyderm parade as their leader invokes his time with the maharajah.
    — Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2016
  • The first star of Marine World was Judy the water-skiing elephant, a pachyderm that trainers placed on pontoon-like skis and dragged into the park’s lagoon.
    — Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Mar. 2018
  • But this 10-foot-tall pachyderm, with halftime performances and a larger-than-life-persona that are as captivating as the play, is one of the rare mascots to become a star in her own right.
    — Harmeet Kaur, CNN, 5 Oct. 2024

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