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Example sentences from the Web for elephantsShe worked with wildlife as a volunteer in Peru and the Galapagos; she worked with elephants in Thailand, at a zoo in Australia. Let’s Free Stacey Addison, The Oregon Woman Jailed at the Ends of the Earth|Christopher Dickey|October 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST And elephants do occasionally use their trunks as snorkels while swimming. Why Aristotle Deserves A Posthumous Nobel|Nick Romeo|October 18, 2014|DAILY BEAST Africans are the park rangers protecting the elephants and other wildlife from violent criminal poaching networks. Why the US-Africa Summit Was Important and Why It Wasn't Enough|John Prendergast|August 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST “We can only save African elephants if China and Japan ban the ivory trade,” Thornton told me. A World Without Elephants? Blame China|Michael Tomasky|August 6, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Beijing claims to oppose the illicit traffic in the tusks of elephants butchered by poachers. China’s Blood Ivory Bazaar|Brendon Hong|June 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST This suborder includes the largest of land mammals, the Elephants, and certain of their extinct allies. The Vertebrate Skeleton|Sidney H. Reynolds It appeared the elephants were wanted to take part in a procession, and for a while they let me guess what sort of a procession. Caves of Terror|Talbot Mundy Maria heard tremblingly from her tower the bellowing of the elephants. In Love With the Czarina and Other Stories|Mr Jkai From Navabi we proceeded to the landing place of Memberri, which evidently was a frequent haunt of elephants. In Darkest Africa, Vol. 1; or, The quest, rescue and retreat of Emin, governor of Equatoria|Henry Morton Stanley Then I told her how I had once bought two elephants, a big one and a small one, and sent them to a sick little girl. Harper's Young People, May 4, 1880|Various
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adjectiveAustralian slang drunk; intoxicated Word Origin for elephantsC20: shortened from elephant's trunk, rhyming slang for drunk Words nearby elephantselephantiasis nostras, elephantiasis scroti, elephantine, elephant man's disease, elephantoid fever, elephants, elephant seal, elephant's-ear, elephant's-foot, elephant shrew, elephant's-trunk snake Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to elephantsboar, pachyderm, mammoth, tusker, mastodon |