Sentence examples for elephant about from inspiring English sources

"From a distance, only another mother could have told that she was crying," Schappell writes in "Elephant," about two women taking tentative steps toward friendship.

The shortest known gestation is that of the Virginian opossum, about 12 days, and the longest that of the Indian elephant, about 22 months.

He was in Los Angeles because that's where he's finishing up his next film, called "Elephant," about high school violence in America.

With lifesize replicas of Buckingham Palace, a rampaging elephant, about 7,000 costumes and a £100m budget, The Crown is one of the most lavish television dramas ever made.

More recently, Jonathan Coe's Like a Fiery Elephant, about the avant-garde novelist BS Johnson, deploys a range of tricks – meandering footnotes, choruses of comments, an intrusive and sometimes indolent narrator – which would be recognisable to readers of the novels of BS Johnson.

Films such as 'Blue Velvet' and 'Taxi Driver' inspired him to write plays: 'I wondered what would happen if someone could write something for the theatre with the visceral power of those films.' He remains a film obsessive, adding, with disarming insistence, that 'Punk Rock' is indebted to Lindsay Anderson's 'If' and Gus Van Sant's 'Elephant' (about Columbine).

Two nights ago, poachers killed two elephants about 40 kilometers away.

Since then, an additional forty-five thousand African elephants — about ten per cent of the total population — have been slaughtered.

The Facebook post by Save the Elephants about his recovery attracted more 200 "get well soon" comments.

Buffies are ceramic elephants about two-and-a-half feet high, with a flat top on which you can put a drink or a pot plant.

They have created, for example, an educational puppet show, illustrating, among other horrors, the dangers of distilling alcohol when there are elephants about: they are boozers as well as gourmands.