How to Use tusk in a Sentence

tusk

noun

• The last four inches of the study mammoth’s tusk, at the tooth’s wide base, record the end of the mammoth’s life.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Aug. 2021
• Hidden in the tusk of a 34-year-old mastodon was a record of time and space that cracked the mystery of his life.
  — Peter Brannen, The Atlantic, 22 June 2022
• The Lystrosaurus was herbivorous, about the size of a pig, with small tusks and a kind of beak.
  — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023
• The ‘Kik’ mammoth tusk used in this project is part of the collection.
  — Sara Harrison, Wired, 12 Aug. 2021
• There were no obvious signs of tusks on the side-scan sonar.
  — Curbed, 18 Jan. 2023
• As the permafrost thaws and riverbanks erode, more tusks will emerge.
  — oregonlive, 5 Oct. 2019
• In that incident, the men sought tusk ivory that can be carved and sold as art.
  — Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 6 July 2018
• The one species, the narwhal, is an Arctic whale known for its huge nine-foot tusk.
  — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 14 Oct. 2020
• The warthog is stout and powerful and has a face-full of tusks, after all.
  — Terry Demio, Cincinnati.com, 30 May 2019
• The scientists cut open one of his eight-foot-long tusks with a huge band saw.
  — Carl Zimmer, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2024
• In its top jaw, the skull featured what looked to be a narwhal tusk, though nowhere near as long.
  — Roni Dengler, Discover Magazine, 20 June 2019
• Rhino horns don’t grow like the antlers of a deer (made of bone) or the tusks of an elephant (giant teeth).
  — Wired, 19 Nov. 2019
• The tusk is believed to belong to a steppe mammoth from before the last ice age.
  — Brittany Kasko, Fox News, 15 July 2023
• The tusk had been found and recovered in just under two hours.
  — New York Times, 22 Nov. 2021
• The babirusa has a set of upper tusks that grow up through the top of its face and has a second set of tusks on the lower jaw.
  — Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 4 Jan. 2024
• Elephant herds were tracked there and hunted for their tusks.
  — Anu Kumar, Quartz India, 26 July 2019
• Another touches the tusk and says the elephant feels like a spear.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Feb. 2021
• Also shown are some of the sampling locations along the middle of the tusk.
  — Sara Harrison, Wired, 12 Aug. 2021
• Experts believe a rival mastodon tusk punctured the right side of his skull and killed the mastodon.
  — Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 13 June 2022
• The tusk came from a male mammoth who lived to be about 28 years old during the last ice age in what is now Alaska.
  — Esther Megbel, Scientific American, 9 Sep. 2021
• Fisher cut a long, thin section from the center of the 9.5-foot-long (3-meter-long) right tusk.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 13 June 2022
• And low-ranking Wynona, who was missing her left tusk, had her two-year-old calf Lucy in tow.
  — Caitlin O'Connell, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2021
• It has now been confirmed that the tusk, which measures more than three feet in length, is from a Columbian mammoth.
  — Catherine Garcia, The Week, 23 Nov. 2021
• The elephant ran a tusk through his leg, narrowly missing the femoral artery.
  — Margalit Fox, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2020
• Each blind man feels a different part of the elephant, but only one part, like the trunk, side, or tusk.
  — Tony Gambill, Forbes, 12 Oct. 2021
• Or perhaps a narwhal uses its tusk to flush out prey on the ocean bottom.
  — Matt Simon, Wired, 1 Apr. 2021
• The large scoop of an electric shovel dug the tusk out of the earth and dropped it into a truck, which later dumped the load, revealing the tusk.
  — Jack Dura, Twin Cities, 8 Jan. 2024
• The team recognized Nemo, a young male with a modest thirty-two-inch tusk, first caught in 2014.
  — Marguerite Holloway, The New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2021
• The poachers escaped, without the tusks, having abandoned much of their gear and leaving a trail of blood through the grass.
  — Tristan McConnell, GQ, 16 Apr. 2018
• Sampling along the entire tusk like this provides a record of the mammoth’s entire life.
  — Sara Harrison, Wired, 12 Aug. 2021

Last Updated: 28 May 2024