Sentence examples for the tusk of from inspiring English sources

For centuries, the tusk of the narwhal has fascinated and baffled.

Clutching sharp stone knives, they hacked at the tusk of a slain mastodon, slicing meat away from the long bone.

A collector named John Arthur nudged Richman out of the bidding for a stein made from the tusk of a walrus.

There's also a tankard made from the tusk of a narwhal embellished with 16 rubies and 36 diamonds, and a silver writing box with 10 compartments, each decorated with life-size silver insects.

Piles of ivory, white and brown from elephants and mammoths, trigger reveries about the ingenuity of trade and of umbrella handles crafted from the tusk of a "brute that roamed through Asian forests before England was an island".

German archaeologists revealed yesterday that they had discovered one of the world's oldest musical instruments, a 35,000-year-old flute carved from the tusk of a now-extinct woolly mammoth.

Russia legally excavates and exports the tusks of extinct woolly mammoths.

The tusks of 58 elephants, worth $1.3m, were in metal boxes.

Inside lay artifacts of bronze, gold, jade, stone and pottery and the tusks of elephants.

Ivory comes from the tusks of walruses or mastodons dug from the permafrost.

Stalked barnacles can also occur on exposed teeth and can be particularly striking on the tusks of beaked whales.