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How do you use Elephant in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like emblem or allegory, plus the exact meaning.

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Elephant in a sentence

Elephant meaning

  1. A large mammal of the family Elephantidae in the order Proboscidea, having a trunk, and native to Africa and Asia.
  2. Any member of the subfamily Elephantinae not also of the genera Mammuthus and Primelephas.
  3. Anything huge and ponderous.

Synonyms of Elephant

proboscidean proboscidian emblem allegory

Using Elephant

  • The main meaning on this page is: A large mammal of the family Elephantidae in the order Proboscidea, having a trunk, and native to Africa and Asia. | Any member of the subfamily Elephantinae not also of the genera Mammuthus and Primelephas. | Anything huge and ponderous.
  • Useful related words include: proboscidean, proboscidian, emblem, allegory.
  • In the example corpus, elephant often appears in combinations such as: the elephant, elephant in, an elephant.

Context around Elephant

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 31.7 words
  • Position in the sentence: 11 start, 9 middle, 0 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Corpus analysis for Elephant

  • In this selection, "elephant" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 31.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, white, theppakadu, human, ivory, population and camp stand out and add context to how "elephant" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include a flying elephant if there and after which elephant poaching and. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "elephant" sits close to words such as crashes, creature and descent, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with elephant

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Mowgli tells the moss-covered elephant, "," and the elephant departs to exact its revenge. (14 words)

World Elephant Day was observed at Nandankanan Zoological Park (NZP) here, Wednesday, with a message of elephant conservation. (18 words)

Decline in elephant population in Hadagarh elephant sanctuary has sparked concern among nature lovers and environmentalists, a report said. (19 words)

The study also pointed that the estimated elephant population in north Bengal is 488, which is only 1.8 % of the elephant population of India, but the number of human deaths due to elephant attacks stood at 12 % of all such deaths in the country. (45 words)

This elephant is not the metaphorical GOP elephant as symbol of the Party of Lincoln, rather this elephant is the continued downward spiral of Connecticut from economic tiger before the institution of a state income tax in 1995 to an economic has-been. (43 words)

In the West, the term "white elephant" relating to an expensive burden that fails to meet expectations, was popularized following P. T. Barnum 's experience with an elephant named Toung Taloung that he billed as the "Sacred White Elephant of Burma". (41 words)

Example sentences (20)

This elephant is not the metaphorical GOP elephant as symbol of the Party of Lincoln, rather this elephant is the continued downward spiral of Connecticut from economic tiger before the institution of a state income tax in 1995 to an economic has-been.

The study also pointed that the estimated elephant population in north Bengal is 488, which is only 1.8 % of the elephant population of India, but the number of human deaths due to elephant attacks stood at 12 % of all such deaths in the country.

In the West, the term "white elephant" relating to an expensive burden that fails to meet expectations, was popularized following P. T. Barnum 's experience with an elephant named Toung Taloung that he billed as the "Sacred White Elephant of Burma".

The Oscar-winning short documentary ‘The Elephant Whisperers’ was shot in the Theppakadu Elephant Camp at the Mudumalai Tiger Reserve in the Nilgiri Mountains in Tamil Nadu.

Working in a more traditional form, “The Elephant Whisperers” director Kartiki Gonsalves spirits audiences away to Asia’s conservation-minded Theppakadu Elephant Camp, where husband and wife Bomman and Bellie foster an orphaned pachyderm named Raghu.

Decline in elephant population in Hadagarh elephant sanctuary has sparked concern among nature lovers and environmentalists, a report said.

During the hearing on March 13, Advocate Shardul Singh sought to intervene on behalf of the Radhe Krishna Temple Elephant Welfare Trust, where the elephant is being transferred, which was allowed by the court.

Elephant deaths have soared to record levels; an embarrassment to a country that hosts a unique sub-species of the endangered Asian Elephant and leads most of its tourism advertising with pictures of them.

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Looking at history is very much like examining an elephant, where one person feels a leg and thinks it’s a tree trunk, and another feels the elephant’s trunk and thinks it’s a snake.

This is the opinion of Saengduean “Lek” Chailert, owner of Elephant Nature Park and founder of Save Elephant Foundation, who believes many of the closures will be permanent.

World Elephant Day was observed at Nandankanan Zoological Park (NZP) here, Wednesday, with a message of elephant conservation.

Drones played a part in the Allen-backed Great Elephant Census, which highlighted hot spots where elephant populations were facing dramatic declines.

In an otherwise straight-forward story about a flying elephant — if there is such a thing — the moment where a monstrous creature, made up entirely of demonic elephant heads, charges at the screen in particular feels misjudged.

Fran Duthie, the President of Elephanatics claims, “The Canadian government has a unique opportunity to play a leadership role in elephant conservation by closing its domestic elephant ivory trade, thereby eliminating all legal loopholes.

In 2004, Anwaruddin Choudhury, a conservationist, wildlife expert and administrator, one of the only possible solutions to mitigate the human-elephant conflict in northeastern India is to restore elephant habitats to pre-1990 conditions.

In order to prevent instances of human-elephant conflict, the conference highlighted the need for an early warning alert system with the prime objective of informing the local populace of elephant presence in the vicinity.

Mowgli tells the moss-covered elephant, "," and the elephant departs to exact its revenge.

One of the old elephant from Green Hill Valley Elephant Camp which won the award for Best Responsible Tourism Awareness-Raising Project at Myanmar Responsible Tourism Awards 2018.

The anti-trade camp uses the example of legal sales of elephant ivory in 2008, after which elephant poaching and ivory trade boomed to the highest levels in history.

The Times described Thailand as a transit hub for trafficked wildlife that was considered to have the largest unregulated market for elephant ivory in the world before it introduced laws several years ago criminalizing the sale of African elephant ivory.

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Common combinations with elephant

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "elephant" in a sentence?
An example: "This elephant is not the metaphorical GOP elephant as symbol of the Party of Lincoln, rather this elephant is the continued downward spiral of Connecticut from economic tiger before the institution of a state income tax in 1995 to an economic has-been." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "elephant" from authentic English texts.
What does "elephant" mean?
Elephant means: A large mammal of the family Elephantidae in the order Proboscidea, having a trunk, and native to Africa and Asia.
What are synonyms of "elephant"?
Common synonyms of "elephant" include: proboscidean, proboscidian, emblem, allegory.
How many example sentences with "elephant" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains at least 10+ example sentences with "elephant", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.