Mammoth

//ˈmæməθ//

"Mammoth" in a Sentence (23 examples)

The author's verbiage produced a document of mammoth size and microscopic import.

Trying to spot bodies in the middle of a vast ocean is a mammoth task.

A frozen mammoth has been found in Siberia.

Mammoth society was probably matriarchal.

The world’s largest cat-proof fence has been completed in central Australia. The mammoth project creates a 94-square-kilometer sanctuary for endangered marsupials.

This willow-tree looks like a mammoth.

The mammoth white ship emblazoned with red crosses has 1,000 beds and 12 operating theaters.

Yanni found well over forty separate mammoth bones in the snow.

A very different and fairly common quasi-human kind was sometimes produced by planets rather larger than the Earth. Owing to the greater strength of gravitation, there would first appear, in place of the familiar quadruped, a six-legged type. This would proliferate into little sextuped burrowers, swift and elegant sextuped grazers, a sextuped mammoth, complete with tusks, and many kinds of sextuped carnivora. Man in these worlds sprang usually from some small opossum-like creature which had come to use the first of its three pairs of limbs for nest-building or for climbing. In time, the forepart of its body thus became erect, and it gradually assumed a form not unlike that of a quadruped with a human torso in place of a neck. In fact it became a centaur, with four legs and two capable arms. It was very strange to find oneself in a world in which all the amenities and conveniences of civilization were fashioned to suit men of this form.

Many species of animals - the woolly mammoth, mastodon, scimitar cat, Arctic camel, brown bear, moose, muskox, and horse — to name a few — moved from one continent to the other across the Bering land bridge.

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Maimanto, as they say a sea elephant which is never seene, but accordinge to the Samuites he workes himselfe under grownde and so they finde his teeth or homes or bones in Pechore and Nova Zemla of which they […]

The Mammotovoy, which is dug out of the Earth in Siberia.

The old Siberian Russians affirm that the Mammuth is very like the Elephant.

Many of our readers will remember the skeleton of the American mammoth, now the Mastodonton, being exhibited in London by Mr. Rembrandt Peale.

The last load, as we Yankees say, was a "Mammoth": […] producing an aggregate of nearly twelve cords.

That is a lot of ship, about the size of big tankers before they grew so rapidly to become supers, mammoths and oilbergs.

Mammoths are taller than 54 inches. Each can carry up to 25% of its weight in combined tack, supplies, and rider.

I recieved [sic] from the persons to whom the inclosed is directed, a present of a quarter of a Mammoth-veal which at 115. days old weighed 438. lb.

A baker in this city offers Mammoth bread for sale. We suppose that his gigantic loaves were baked at a Salt Lick, and perhaps […]

“Ha! ha!” he proudly cried, “a fig / For this, your mammoth torso! / Just watch me while I grow as big / As you—or even more so!”

“[…] The task is mammoth but not hopeless and slowly we keep things going until this transition period is past.”

The governor of the region said that all of the 13 missing were safe after a mammoth search and rescue operation.

Network Rail doesn't expect the line through Carmont to open for around a month, as it faces the mammoth task of recovering the two power cars and four coaches from ScotRail's wrecked train, repairing bridge 325, stabilising earthworks around the landslip, and replacing the track.

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