Example Sentences

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My heart pounds so loudly that I fear the rhino might hear it — the duo is close enough for me to make out the rough texture of their gray, pachydermal skin.

From Seattle Times • May 5, 2022

Directors try for the intimacy of a movie close- up or the narrative voice of fiction or the pachydermal pizzazz of theme- park extravaganzas, and you think, Why did they bother?

From Time Magazine Archive

Head of the Biltmore junta was an elderly, pachydermal gentleman named Dr. Domingo Mendez Capote, who blushingly denied reports that if & when the revolution was successful he might possibly be chosen President of Cuba.

From Time Magazine Archive

That fish, as you call it, Joe, is really a mammiferous animal of the pachydermal species.

From Five Weeks in a Balloon by Verne, Jules