"elephant" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Obama has finally acknowledged that the elephant in the room is crushing us.
- Recently, an elephant from the same circus booked for the Orange Bowl crushed a man to death in Fishkill, N.Y.
- His elephant fell and crushed him while he sought to display his prowess to the diplomatic corps.
- During a siege, attackers would employ elephants to crush a fort's gates.
- Few witnesses denied the condemned was the criminal, because then the elephant may crush them instead.
- Some elephants crushed the arms and legs first, to increase the pain.
- The huge elephant crushed most, but sometimes refused.
- Then, the elephant would crush the bag flat with the condemned inside.
- Foreman flattened Cooney the way an elephant would crush a water buffalo, but tonight he'll be trying to find a mouse.
- Some men, rolling out stout bright-painted barrels which elephants could not crush by sitting on, attracted his attention for a moment.
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