Sentence examples for pachyderms from inspiring English sources
'pachyderms' is a correct and usable word in written English
You can use it to refer to any of the large, thick-skinned, and hoofed mammals which have either two or four toes on each foot, including elephants, hippopotamuses, rhinoceroses, and the extinct American Mastodon. Example sentence: The last remaining pachyderms of the region were poached by hunters in the early 2000s.
Surplus pachyderms impose a particular burden on the poor, trashing their crops and attacking water sources, children and old people.
The sight of forlorn pachyderms, many suffering from skin diseases caused by unsuitable diets, pounding the capital's hot, hard pavements horrifies animal-rights activists.It is unclear where the homeless elephants will go.
Despite the challenge from a newer generation, who are neither part of the Mitterrand era nor graduates of France's elite schools, these pachyderms seem as unwilling as ever to loosen their grip and take the party into the 21st century.
That leaves a huge proportion of the pachyderms unprotected even by the porous boundaries of national parks and other conservation areas.
Many elephants have already returned to Angola following the end in 2002 of the Angolan civil war, during which an estimated 100,000 of the pachyderms were slaughtered for ivory to fund the conflict.
As such, these young pachyderms' journeys can teach a lesson or two to children and adults alike.
I couldn't bring myself to find out if a pachyderms-on-pontoons ban was still on the books.
Reportedly this shambolic pachyderm can throw a playing card through the rind of a watermelon at a distance of ten paces".Redbelt", Mr Mamet's new film, premieres tomorrow night.
ECONOMIC reform in India normally moves at an elephantine pace, but on February 5th the pachyderm pounced.
On May 8th, Iain Douglas-Hamilton, the chairman of Save the Elephants, a conservation charity, announced the latest findings of his pachyderm radio-tracking project.
Every morning he and his keeper emerged like Dr Jekyll from Mr Hyde.As Mr Sutherland says, "Jumbo was always as much a symbol as a pachyderm", and it delights him to strip out the myths from the monster.
