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elephant

An elephant is a very large animal with two long teeth called tusks and a long nose called trunk. Elephants live in Africa and Asia.

elephant

five-toed pachyderm the symbol of the Republican Party; introduced in cartoons by Thomas Nast in 1874

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Simple sentences

Please do not think of a pink elephant right now.
The elephant is grey.
I have an elephant.
The elephant has a short tail.
This dose is enough to put an elephant to sleep.
A furious elephant kicks out the fencing of his enclosure and sends the keeper flying.
Seen from a distance, the hill looks like an elephant.
A critically wounded elephant went berserk and attacked every living thing in his path.
The elephant was brought to the zoo.
The elephant is liked by little children.
This is how they catch an elephant alive.
Have you ever seen an elephant fly?
An elephant is a strong animal.
The size of the elephant astonished the little boy.
An elephant is an enormous animal.
An elephant is a very large animal.
An elephant has a long nose.
The elephant was killed by the hunter.
The little boy gazed at the huge elephant, eyes wide open.
What should we do with this white elephant your aunt gave us? It's way too ugly to go on the wall.
An elephant was hunted there.

Movie subtitles

Well, a white elephant really.
The white elephant of the King of Siam, the sacred animal,..
Who did steal the white elephant was just the minister of police!
I will be on the sacred vessel, with the white elephant.
Is there a green elephant standing beside him?
According to you, one of them is enough to knock out an elephant.
He would have been, too, but he suddenly left for India on an elephant hunt.
Peanut, elephant.
Elephant hunt, me.
Elephant hunting.
You can put down an elephant with one of these things.
You told me that before. Trust me, this is not an elephant.
Now, you take the rogue elephant, for instance.
Look. Someone upstairs is playing musical chairs with an elephant.
One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas.
In Alabama, the tusks are looser. But that's entirely ir-elephant.
Is there a green elephant there?
The one about why one never finds a dead elephant in the jungle.
An elephant can always tell when death is coming for him. and when he hears the call. there's a secret place to which he wanders.
To some of them, the elephant is sacred even alive.
Does that mean we lose the elephant tracks?
The dying elephant has to swim this.
Elephant!
Tarzan's called the elephant to clear a trail for you.
No, we followed a dying elephant.
A dying elephant?
It's elephant's instinct.
The elephant - that is the letter from Spinelli!
Elephant Tusks-Ivory-Gold of the Congo.
Now, how can one so young have the memory of a 200-year-old elephant?
Elephant! That's the answer!
I know, an elephant. - Goodbye, darling.
There's a gentleman at the door with an elephant.
I'm a weasel, I'm a hawk. - I've got the memory of an elephant.
Supposing you met an elephant?
What makes the elephant charge his tusk in the misty mist or the dusky dusk?
Well, then it's an elephant.
Hey, guys, look it. Smitty's an elephant.
One elephant climbs up on top of another elephant until finally all 17 elephants have constructed an enormous pyramid of pachyderms.

News and current affairs

The motion followed the release of undercover footage, obtained by Animal Defenders International, of a circus worker repeatedly beating Anne, an elephant.
The elephant of Indian democracy will acquire a new set of mahouts before the month's end.
Meanwhile, the elephant in the room is the fact that dermatologists are confirming that the form of cancer for which McCain has been treated has an actuarial survival rate of two to four years for a person his age.
Tiger Mothers or Elephant Mothers?
So are elephants, and elephant mothers do not focus only on the well-being of their own offspring.
He could meet his bride seated majestically on the caparison of an elaborately decorated elephant, and she would look ravishing swathed and bejeweled in Indian finery.
But neither candidate acknowledges the much bigger elephant in the room.
But when even a lone elephant does a war dance, the grass still feels the pain.
Can the Elephant Dance with the Dragon?
In other words, the elephant is already dancing with the dragon.
But the CDF's formal proceedings never even hinted at the elephant in the chambers of Diaoyutai.
For the sake of regional and international security, this elephant must be tamed.
For the moment one stops seeing the terrorist attacks of 2001 as a purely religious statement, one is forced to confront the elephant in the room: the attacks were, in essence, a political statement.
Indian democracy has often been likened to the stately progress of the elephant - ponderous in its gait and reluctant to change course, but not easily swayed from its new path when it does.

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