How to Use tusk in a Sentence

tusk

noun
  • In it lay a massive white tusk.
    — AFAR Media, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Elephant herds were tracked there and hunted for their tusks.
    — Anu Kumar, Quartz India, 26 July 2019
  • As the permafrost thaws and riverbanks erode, more tusks will emerge.
    — oregonlive, 5 Oct. 2019
  • The Utah Mammoth have a tusk mug.
    — Peter Baugh, New York Times, 12 May 2026
  • Females that grow long tusks are called iconic cows, the group says.
    — Nicholas Komu, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2026
  • In that incident, the men sought tusk ivory that can be carved and sold as art.
    — Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 6 July 2018
  • The scientists cut open one of his eight-foot-long tusks with a huge band saw.
    — Carl Zimmer, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2024
  • The tusk had been found and recovered in just under two hours.
    — New York Times, 22 Nov. 2021
  • In its top jaw, the skull featured what looked to be a narwhal tusk, though nowhere near as long.
    — Roni Dengler, Discover Magazine, 20 June 2019
  • The warthog is stout and powerful and has a face-full of tusks, after all.
    — Terry Demio, Cincinnati.com, 30 May 2019
  • The entrance was marked by large upright mammoth tusks.
    — Literary Hub, 1 May 2026
  • The term describes a bull elephant with tusks that weigh more than 99 pounds each.
    — Nicholas Komu, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2026
  • The one species, the narwhal, is an Arctic whale known for its huge nine-foot tusk.
    — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 14 Oct. 2020
  • Or perhaps a narwhal uses its tusk to flush out prey on the ocean bottom.
    — Matt Simon, Wired, 1 Apr. 2021
  • The tusk is believed to belong to a steppe mammoth from before the last ice age.
    — Brittany Kasko, Fox News, 15 July 2023
  • Another touches the tusk and says the elephant feels like a spear.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Feb. 2021
  • The ‘Kik’ mammoth tusk used in this project is part of the collection.
    — Sara Harrison, Wired, 12 Aug. 2021
  • Knight met a woman who trains dogs in Africa to detect the scent of elephant tusks.
    — Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 23 Apr. 2026
  • The elephant ran a tusk through his leg, narrowly missing the femoral artery.
    — Margalit Fox, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2020
  • Experts believe a rival mastodon tusk punctured the right side of his skull and killed the mastodon.
    — Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 13 June 2022
  • Rhino horns don’t grow like the antlers of a deer (made of bone) or the tusks of an elephant (giant teeth).
    — Wired, 19 Nov. 2019
  • The last four inches of the study mammoth’s tusk, at the tooth’s wide base, record the end of the mammoth’s life.
    — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Aug. 2021
  • The animals’ meat, hides and, above all, tusks are money-spinners.
    — The Economist, 8 Aug. 2019
  • The Lystrosaurus was herbivorous, about the size of a pig, with small tusks and a kind of beak.
    — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023
  • Also shown are some of the sampling locations along the middle of the tusk.
    — Sara Harrison, Wired, 12 Aug. 2021
  • Each blind man feels a different part of the elephant, but only one part, like the trunk, side, or tusk.
    — Tony Gambill, Forbes, 12 Oct. 2021
  • Hippos have tusks that are made of ivory and are used for fighting and defending their children.
    — Briana Rice, Cincinnati.com, 17 Mar. 2020
  • Someone broke into the center early one morning and took the tusk.
    — Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News, 19 June 2018
  • The babirusa has a set of upper tusks that grow up through the top of its face and has a second set of tusks on the lower jaw.
    — Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Sampling along the entire tusk like this provides a record of the mammoth’s entire life.
    — Sara Harrison, Wired, 12 Aug. 2021

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