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tortoise

A tortoise is a type of reptile that lives on land. It walks very slowly and has a shell on its back

tortoise

usually herbivorous land turtles having clawed elephant-like limbs; worldwide in arid area except Australia and Antarctica

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Simple sentences

The small island looked like a tortoise from a distance.
A hare raced with a tortoise.
Lonesome George, the last remaining tortoise of his kind, died of unknown causes.
Lonesome George was the last giant tortoise of his kind.
The world rests upon an elephant and the elephant rests upon a tortoise.
What's the difference between a turtle and a tortoise?
The hare was outdistanced by the tortoise.
The Galapagos Islands giant tortoise known as Lonesome George is dead.
The islet resembled a tortoise from afar.

Movie subtitles

That doesn't mean you should run. Go like the tortoise, one step at a time.
A tortoise-shell comb!
This looks like tortoise-shell!
The Hare and The Tortoise.
Oh, a tortoise.
Crush a tortoise?
The master was an old turtle - we used to call him Tortoise.
Why did you call him Tortoise if he wasn't one?
We called him Tortoise because he taught us.
For the third time, the Tortoise went to see Achilles.
Achilles a centimetre and the Tortoise a millimetre.
Achilles a millimetre and the Tortoise one-tenth of a millimetre.
Achilles will never catch the Tortoise. Achilles couldn't believe this.
He laughed at the Tortoise.
OH, A TORTOISE.
CRUSH A TORTOISE?
Play with the tortoise.
Have you ever seen a tortoise before?
You have to be careful with the tortoise. or it'll get a sore tummy.
Where is that tortoise? We'll christen it.
Where's the tortoise? What did you say?
Leave the tortoise there.
Where is the Tortoise?
The Tortoise. Where is the Tortoise?
Here, give the Tortoise a kiss.
It's a real zoo here. tortoise, dogs.
If it's 200, then it's a tortoise.
The race began. The Tortoise was ten metres ahead of the man, who smiled and moved ten times faster than the Tortoise.
Achilles went ten metres, the Tortoise went one.
Achilles one metre and the Tortoise a decimetre.
Achilles will never catch the Tortoise.
He told the Tortoise that movement clearly existed. He kicked the Tortoise into the air.

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