Example Sentences

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Unfazed, Bugs Bunny says, “Watch me paste this pathetic palooka with a powerful paralyzing perfect pachydermous percussion pitch.”

From Washington Post • Feb. 25, 2021

They moved on to the great statue of Ganesha, the elephant-headed god, round whose pachydermous head flared a halo of electric lights.

From Time Magazine Archive

An unfortunate meeting of behemoths on a foggy morning Once they exceed a pachydermous 250,000 tons�about four times the size of the Queen Elizabeth 2, for example �oceangoing oil carriers are classified as supertankers.

From Time Magazine Archive

Albert, 41, five-ton dean of the Ringling circus pachydermous corps.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the case of Ab Maddock, big, impudent, and pachydermous, it took Dugald Robertson, the minister's son, just half an hour's hard fighting to extract a promise of good behaviour.

From The Doctor : a Tale of the Rockies by Connor, Ralph