How to Use pachyderm in a Sentence

pachyderm

noun
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  • The pachyderms take the path of least resistance and keep out.
    — Matt Jancer, WIRED, 12 Dec. 2013
  • With the power to put down a pachyderm, this rifle roars at the muzzle and bites at the butt-stock.
    — Richard Mann, Field & Stream, 17 Sep. 2019
  • The rock the pavilion rests on looks like some giant pachyderm.
    — Holland Cotter, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2017
  • As Michael Safi reports for The Guardian, the poor pachyderm appears to have been caught up in a current and swept out to sea.
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 13 July 2017
  • Morgan’s long march comes as a welcome reprieve from all the bad news in the pachyderm world.
    — Jeffrey Gettleman, New York Times, 17 Mar. 2016
  • Wilstem offers a once-in-a-lifetime chance to bathe one of three elephants, love on them and learn more about the peaceful pachyderms.
    — Sarah Bahr, Indianapolis Star, 11 July 2018
  • Thanks to the quick, collected thinking of the pachyderm pair, the calf walked away from the incident uninjured.
    — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 23 June 2017
  • All About Elephants, Inc. owns and runs the ranch with an objective of teaching people about pachyderms.
    — Sarah Elsesser, ajc, 26 Mar. 2017
  • The weight of the elephant’s trunk pillar contributed 28 percent of the force the pachyderm needed to compress the wheat brain pile into a solid lump.
    — Roni Dengler, Discover Magazine, 23 Oct. 2018
  • Dreiser, playing so well the part of the pachyderm, seemed completely undisturbed.
    — John Dos Passos, National Review, 28 Sep. 2020
  • Around 20 million years ago there lived a prehistoric pachyderm named Deinotherium with twin, curved tusks curving down from the jaw.
    — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Dec. 2020
  • The first star of Marine World was Judy the water-skiing elephant, a pachyderm that trainers placed on pontoon-like skis and dragged into the park’s lagoon.
    — Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Mar. 2018
  • Of the 1,052 lives claimed by elephants in the last three years, many had simply been in the way when the pachyderms wandered out of jungles in search of vegetation and raided farmers’ crops.
    — Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2017
  • The Althoff Circus was in town and had arranged a promotional trip for the young pachyderm, who was a minor celebrity in West Germany at the time.
    — Marcel Krueger, CNN, 16 May 2022
  • The 50-year-old pachyderm was found collapsed on the ground in her 6.5-acre enclosure on Tuesday afternoon, according to a release from the zoo.
    — Gabrielle Chung, PEOPLE.com, 5 Dec. 2019
  • In other words, the pachyderm exerted 100 times the weight of the pile to pick it up, the researchers report today in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface.
    — Roni Dengler, Discover Magazine, 23 Oct. 2018
  • The ultimate goals are to help law enforcement and policy-makers shut down the ivory market and raise public awareness of the plight of pachyderms.
    — Bloomberg.com, 15 Jan. 2018
  • Belle joins the Milwaukee Zoo's pachyderms Brittany and Ruth, who are also 38 years old, in the new elephant quarters that opened earlier this year.
    — Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 Nov. 2019
  • As for the elephant in the room — or lack thereof — the absence of a real pachyderm is dealt with through the occasional sound effect and imagination.
    — Matthew J. Palm, OrlandoSentinel.com, 17 Mar. 2018
  • In the 1967 film, the elephants are amusingly buffoonish and march in a pachyderm parade as their leader invokes his time with the maharajah.
    — Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2016
  • One elephant was killed and two others were injured after a truck carrying five pachyderms crashed on a highway.
    — Travis Fedschun, Fox News, 2 Apr. 2018
  • One particularly talented pachyderm, a female called Pawan, could squeak and snort at the same time.
    — Karen Hopkin, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2021
  • After analyzing all the data, the thoughtful pachyderm chose the Eagles.
    — PEOPLE.com, 2 Feb. 2018
  • The magical appeal of Circus 1903 is a new breed of pachyderm: hyper-realistic, life-size puppets, by the creators of the Broadway smash War Horse.
    — Holly Millea, Smithsonian, 29 June 2017
  • The difference is that Horton was a pachyderm patsy, snookered into pro bono egg-tending by a ne’er-do-well bird, while Glennon will make a cool $16 million this year.
    — Pat Fitzmaurice, SI.com, 2 Aug. 2017
  • The pachyderm's just an appetizer, however, and the hungry creatures soon turn their attention to the tasty humans.
    — Matt Cabral, EW.com, 2 Jan. 2023
  • The performing pachyderms, which typically paraded down the street to signal the arrival of the circus in a town, were staple of Ringling Brothers for years.
    — Leada Gore, AL.com, 21 May 2017
  • His sister, Joyce, is one of the world's leading authorities on African pachyderm behavior.
    — Benjamin Hunting, Car and Driver, 9 June 2023
  • But save some camera battery for the Elephant Terrace, too, as its hundreds of stone pachyderms once welcomed the Khmer imperial army back from battle.
    — Cynthia Drescher, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Apr. 2018
  • Madukkarai is located in an elephant corridor that has been used by migrating pachyderms for thousands of years.
    — Steve Winter, National Geographic, 22 July 2016

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