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Example sentences for "mammoth"

Lexicographically close words:
mammifer; mammiferous; mammifers; mammillary; mammillated; mammoths; mammy; mamook; man; mana
  1. In his left hand he carried a mammoth cloth satchel wadded so full that ghastly stumps of a roast turkey were protruding from its gaping mouth.

  2. It looked like a mammoth butterfly egg, but it was heavy and had a sinister complexion.

  3. The prominent pictorial feature of the North Cove is of a mountain called the Hawk's Bill, on account of its resemblance to the beak of a mammoth bird, the length of the bill being about fifteen hundred feet.

  4. But what is still more remarkable is the fact, that within this plaster bed was found the remains of an unknown animal, which must have been a mammoth indeed.

  5. Next moment, like a mammoth billow, the smoke rolled down upon them all.

  6. A mammoth edition of the Goddess of Liberty; and the aircraft had presumed to alight upon its cheek!

  7. Under her mammoth floppy hat reminding you of an early summer rose.

  8. Traffic policemen had stood on their little platforms at the centre of the street crossings under those mammoth parasols they have to shield them from the rigors of the Washington sun.

  9. Your grandmothers in the days of the mammoth and the giant bear did not wield the same dominion over the prehistoric hunters and cave-men which you possess over us.

  10. There was a chart showing a mammoth human hand, the palm marked with myriads of purple lines.

  11. There were mammoth elephants, two or three times as large as the elephants we see in the circus to-day, with shaggy hair, and long curving tusks to fight with.

  12. We find no streams and true springs here as in Mammoth Cave, but there are numerous basins of pellucid water, varying from one to fifty feet in diameter, and from six to fifteen feet in depth.

  13. The natural arch that admits one to Mammoth Cave has a span of seventy feet.

  14. We find several forms of life in Mammoth Cave, such as light gray or stone colored crickets, with antennae and legs twice the length of our black musician.

  15. For this reason stone huts were once erected for consumptives in Mammoth Cave.

  16. Thirteen was the original number and for the poor unfortunates who inhabited them it was most unlucky; the patients became worse, and on being taken from their subterranean homes in Mammoth Cave quickly died.

  17. The temperature of both Luray Caverns and Mammoth Cave is uniformly fifty-four degrees Fahrenheit throughout the year, and the atmosphere is both chemically and optically of singular purity.

  18. One of the most remarkable formations as well as one of the most beautiful which may be seen in Mammoth Cave is the flower garden.

  19. The Mammoth Cave in Kentucky was also visited.

  20. The storm swooped down with sudden fury while we were watching the steam jets in the Mammoth Paint Pot throw evanescent lilies and roses in the coloured mud.

  21. I have a distinct recollection of pre-empting for my own use a big iron staple which some soldier had put in the mineral-charged water of Mammoth Hot Springs to acquire a frosty coating.

  22. This occurred on the mountains above the Gardiner River not long after I had returned to Mammoth Hot Springs from my circular tour on ski.

  23. Mammoth Hot Springs, in spite of the passing of Fort Yellowstone, I found to have augmented greatly since my former visit.

  24. Holt had pushed on to Mammoth Hot Springs and Carr and I had gone out to watch for the eruption of the Monarch.

  25. In walking from the Grand Canyon to Mammoth Hot Springs I followed the road over Mount Washburn, stopping for the night at Camp Roosevelt, below Tower Falls.

  26. Getting himself a hasty breakfast, he kicked into his ski and pushed off down the Mammoth Springs road at four o'clock.

  27. He led me on foot up the road to Golden Gate, circled round to the west, ordered me to put on my ski, and then started down through the timber toward the terraces of Mammoth Hot Springs.

  28. Albright, who had only returned to Mammoth a couple of hours before I had to leave to catch my train at Gardiner.

  29. If not with us, then with some other School, for with them you can learn something about this mammoth rapid-growing, health-giving business.

  30. The picture that so interested him, I saw as I drew nearer, represented the skeleton of a prehistoric mammoth with a man standing by its side, the latter figure placed in the picture, no doubt, for the purpose of showing relations of size.

  31. Mammoth clover has long been grown in several of the countries of Europe and Western Asia.

  32. Speaking in a general way, the medium and mammoth varieties can be grown at their best between parallels 37° and 49° north latitude.

  33. Some farmers cure mammoth clover in its green form in the mow as they also cure the medium red variety, but the same objections apply to curing it thus that apply to the similar curing of the medium red.

  34. But the mammoth variety will monopolize the ground while the first hay crop is being produced.

  35. Mammoth clover calls for climatic conditions about the same as those for medium red clover.

  36. In nearly all localities the grazing of medium red clover, and even of mammoth clover, somewhat closely in the autumn of the second year, is to be practised rather than avoided.

  37. This second growth is ready for being plowed under when time is less valuable than it would be when the mammoth or alsike varieties would be in season for being thus covered.

  38. In Canada also the adaptation of medium and mammoth clover is much the same as for the medium red.

  39. On certain sandy loam soils a stand of mammoth clover is more assured if sown with a pasture crop than if sown with a grain crop which is to mature.

  40. The medium red and mammoth varieties are biennial, but sometimes they assume the perennial quality.

  41. The preparation of the soil called for by the mammoth clover is virtually the same as that required when preparing a seed-bed for the medium red variety.

  42. When grown for seed, mammoth clover is quite frequently pastured.

  43. It is a curious fact that the Chinese described and figured the Mammoth as a kind of gigantic Rat.

  44. The causes of the disappearance of the Mammoth are not easy to understand.

  45. The Mammoth was of exceedingly wide range.

  46. Thus it is plain that Siberia was once covered by mighty forests, through which the Mammoth roamed.

  47. A short distance farther up the river at the Dufferin Islands is the beginning of the mammoth steel conduits of the Ontario Power Company.

  48. We take the road home from here, but go a much more direct route, which will be by ambulance all the way to Fort Ellis, instead of going by the cars from Mammoth Hot Springs.

  49. We have part of the transportation that Major General Schofield used for this same trip two weeks ago, and which we found waiting for us at Mammoth Hot Springs.

  50. This mammoth Exhibition was to Great Britain what the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 was to the United States--magnificent evidence of industrial progress.

  51. Here you will find a mammoth twine-mill--the largest of its kind in any country.

  52. There it lay below them, a round black spot, hiding the sweet faces of the stars, but otherwise no more distinguishable by the travellers than if they were lying in the depths of the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky.

  53. Who paid them and how did the tenants of these mammoth landlords live?

  54. Certain Tartar races, the Tungooses and Yakoots, believed that the mammoth worked its way in the earth like a mole.

  55. We understand that Colonel Cruickshank, the Napoleon of Victorian finance, the mammoth hustler of the Pacific coast, has determined to conduct those gentlemen who have bought his bonded claims to the fortunes which await them.

  56. These journalists are wonderful fellows, but I suspect most of that paragraph was inspired and paid for by the 'mammoth hustler.

  57. One of the largest of these chambers is called Mammoth Dome.

  58. Another striking feature of Mammoth Cave is what is called the Dead Sea.

  59. On account of its great size, it was named Mammoth Cave.

  60. At first they were merely the record of a buried treasure, the wealth of the northern tribes being the ivory of the walrus and the narwhal and such tusks of the mammoth as came to them through the melting of the glaciers.

  61. At one place they visited a museum that contained three of the gigantic ivory tusks of the mammoth of which they had read a good deal since finding the narwhal's horn.

  62. Dragging some of them out, he saw that the pile consisted of some ten fine mammoth tusks, well preserved, two of which were still attached to part of the skull of the animal, a fine museum relic.

  63. In such places as Borkum there were Zeppelins in commission ready for making flights to the British Isles, but at the first intimation of a raid upon the airship sheds the mammoth gas-bags would fly inland until the danger was past.

  64. All that seemingly remained was to shut off the motors and drag the mammoth into its lair.

  65. To whom did the feet belong, and, particularly, the mammoth ones?


  66. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mammoth" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.