How to Use hippopotamus in a Sentence

hippopotamus

noun

• The problem is with the green top, which looks like a hat on the steps with a hippopotamus face.
  — David J. Neal, miamiherald, 19 Dec. 2017
• On the grounds of one lodge, the bones of a dwarf hippopotamus have just been uncovered.
  — Sophy Roberts, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Mar. 2017
• The woman was short and svelte with dark eyes, and the guy was tall, bald, and heavyish, and looked like a hippopotamus.
  — Matthew Klam, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2020
• Amounts that would have choked a hippopotamus two years ago now go down easy.
  — Steve Chapman, chicagotribune.com, 30 Apr. 2021
• Hong Kong alone received more than half the hippopotamus skins.
  — Rachel Fobar, National Geographic, 3 Oct. 2019
• One famous story has to do with the hippopotamus’ tail.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Oct. 2020
• The big sister was also able to feed one of the zoo’s elephants as well as have photos ops with a hippopotamus and a pair of penguins.
  — Stephanie Petit, PEOPLE.com, 4 Apr. 2018
• The Dallas Zoo just welcomed a healthy new hippopotamus!
  — Bailey Richards, Peoplemag, 9 Nov. 2022
• Martin Van Buren had tigers and Calvin Coolidge had a hippopotamus.
  — Kevin Fisher-Paulson, SFChronicle.com, 11 June 2019
• Dump the whole moral-reality thing and write about a hippopotamus hunter.
  — David Marchese David Marchesephotograph By Mamadi Doumbouya, New York Times, 23 Nov. 2022
• For ages 24 months and up, this inflatable hippopotamus pool comes equipped with a wading area and a mini slide.
  — Naveen Kumar, CNN Underscored, 29 June 2020
• Finds include a 5,000-year-old horse tooth, many species of ancient and extinct sharks, sea lions and a hippopotamus, Thomae said.
  — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 27 Oct. 2019
• The creatures, which at 2,500 pounds weighed nearly as much as a hippopotamus, were not just massive but also well-armed.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Feb. 2020
• Otherwise how could the hippopotamus have once been a dolphin?
  — Cynthia Ozick, The New Yorker, 14 June 2021
• Carved ivory upper and lower dentures (18th century) The first dentures were made of hippopotamus ivory, which was thought to be more durable.
  — Roslyn Sulcas, New York Times, 7 June 2018
• Among those seeking refuge were herds of hippopotamuses.
  — Popular Science, 13 May 2020
• Gigantic leatherback turtles, topping out at about 2,000 pounds, nest along the beaches, while hippopotamuses body surf in the waves.
  — Alexandra Wexler, WSJ, 9 May 2018
• The hippopotamus — the closest living relative of whales that live outside the ocean — also has dense bones, which help weigh it down while walking along the bottom of lakes or rivers.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 19 Mar. 2021
• Sauropods were assumed to walk like elephants, but a new way to analyze footprints shows their gait was most similar to a hippopotamus.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 11 Aug. 2022
• These animals ranged in weight from a few pounds to about 4,000 pounds, with the largest among them similar in bulk to a modern hippopotamus or rhinoceros.
  — Kohei Tanaka, National Geographic, 15 May 2018
• Most of the animals were shipped away, but the four hippopotamuses—of which Escobar was especially fond—were left to fend for themselves in a pond.
  — National Geographic, 31 Jan. 2020
• A large number of hippopotamuses have been killed in the western part of Niger after villagers blamed them for destroying crops and livestock.
  — Fox News, 13 July 2017
• That explains why the restaurant’s mascot is a hippopotamus, but also why items like harissa and couscous play prominently on the menu.
  — Jess Fleming, Twin Cities, 16 Jan. 2017
• Graeter's has put the two together, with an ice cream inspired by Fiona, the Cincinnati Zoo's popular baby hippopotamus.
  — Polly Campbell, Cincinnati.com, 17 July 2017
• Begemot is the Russian word for hippopotamus, and behemoth.
  — Sam Patten, WIRED, 14 Aug. 2019
• There is a hippopotamus, a microbe, and a whole series of disembodied hairlines.
  — Cleo Levin, Slate Magazine, 24 Oct. 2017
• Zoo Atlanta didn't get a hippopotamus for Christmas — but another large mammal had a baby, just in time for the holiday.
  — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 28 Dec. 2023
• The urban legend is that the song was recorded as a fundraiser to get a hippopotamus at a local zoo, but apparently that's not the reality.
  — Abigail Rosenthal, Chron, 1 Dec. 2021
• Previous swims reached a few hundred feet, according to the release, and some long swims result in death by crocodile or hippopotamus attack.
  — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 11 July 2024
• Using high-definition cameras and heat detection cameras on drones, the team observed the males making a daring crossing of the hippopotamus and Nile crocodile filled Kazinga Channel.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 10 July 2024

Last Updated: 3 Nov 2024