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    tusk


    tusked


    tusks


    1. flying together in the same swirl of tusk


    2. Many reporters, Roger believes, consider themselves as clean as an elephant’s tusk and maintain that, in a pluralistic society, Christians should practice the virtue of silence and not inhibit the freedom of others


    3. The boar said " REEEEEEET!" and swung its tusk


    4. I had to push Grover so he wouldn't get launched into the mountain on the Boar Tusk Express


    5. As he grabbed the left ear, the infuriated boar freed his tusk and jerked his head up with the authority of a front-loader, breaking Sam‘s grip


    6. countless tusks or tusk by-products ended up in Europe and the


    7. That is which have claw, fang or tusk, they hurt by nature


    8. It is never an easy tusk, even the most experienced options traders


    9. tusk and said, "It is hard and smooth


    10. That tusk had been rammed through countless sea monsters no doubt, but Keturah showed no fear

    11. He came riding high in the water right down the channel with his snout tipped back and her sitting on the base of this tusk


    12. A tidal wave erupted behind the giant leader, but before he could turn to discover its source he stared downward transfixed in horror at the huge tusk that had gored through his middle


    13. He screamed out in a sudden agonizing fear of death and dropped Keturah to the wet sand as he grasped at the firmly rooted tusk


    14. Sancho, as he showed the rents in his torn suit to the duchess, observed, "If we had been hunting hares, or after small birds, my coat would have been safe from being in the plight it's in; I don't know what pleasure one can find in lying in wait for an animal that may take your life with his tusk if he gets at you


    15. One mighty tusk cut like a mountain against the golden light, trailing a widening shadow towards the stars


    16. "Yes, smashed by the monster's tusk! I believe it's the sole injury the Abraham Lincoln has sustained


    17. "This lad will be an honor to his people," said Hawkeye, regarding the trail with as much admiration as a naturalist would expend on the tusk of a mammoth or the rib of a mastodon; "ay, and a thorn in the sides of the Hurons


    18. The tusk of the boar has wounded him there where love lies ableeding


    19. The second, feeling of his tusk,


    20. He was a huge fellow, terribly scarred about the face and chest, and with one broken tusk and a missing ear

    21. Strictly speaking, this horn is but a lengthened tusk, growing out from the jaw in a line a little depressed from the horizontal


    1. referred to as makhnas; tusked elephants are referred to as


    2. In the end the tusked boar fell pierced by the blades of the many spears they held in front of him; and Don Quixote, turning round at the cries of Sancho, for he knew by them that it was he, saw him hanging from the oak head downwards, with Dapple, who did not forsake him in his distress, close beside him; and Cide Hamete observes that he seldom saw Sancho Panza without seeing Dapple, or Dapple without seeing Sancho Panza; such was their attachment and loyalty one to the other


    3. She could find her own personal Jesus on the matte black cement floors where hundreds of meaty, tusked Unseelie that resemble rhinoceroses stamp the floor with hooves and indulge their taste for voluptuous women and Marilyn Manson; or do it her way, which is all she does anyway, where Sinatra croons from speakers mounted on the polished wood of a stately, old-fashioned bar presided over by three enormously fat Unseelie females with multiple breasts; or acknowledge that she is, in fact, Titanium, as Sia belts out above a mirrored dance floor that pulses with flashing neon lights, crammed with young, mostly naked men and women, attended in air and on foot by golden, sparkling Seelie


    4. The Narwhale I have heard called the Tusked whale, the Horned whale, and the Unicorn whale


    5. It has a sort of howdah on its back, and its distended tusked mouth into which the billows are rolling, might be taken for the Traitors' Gate leading from the Thames by water into the Tower


    1. The animal had huge tusks and a snout just like a wild pig


    2. ‘I get the feeling those tusks and teeth of the beast will come in useful’


    3. Then they charged children with stout sticks and from out of the bushes huge Buffer beasts with tusks gleaming and teeth grinding


    4. Gorgeous State umbrellas, enormous kinkassies or wardrums, brass-studded chairs, beautifully carved stools, European and native swords, native spears, Ashanti daggers and knives, executioners' blades and torture instruments, brass studded cases, leather fetish caps, silken and cotton cloths, execution stools with recent blood stains, valuable old English chinaware, common table knives, large glass vases, carved wooden sandals, silk and gingham pillows of down and soft cotton, a few tusks, ivory pieces for playing “po” and drafts, a few bottles of brandy, common blunderbusses, old flint locks, a few Sniders, and so on ad infinitum


    5. On the outskirts of one of these swamps an animal of the peccary species broke cover, but disappeared with a whisk of his tusks before I had time to pot him


    6. He folded his leathery wings and said through a mouth filled with granite teeth and a set of fangs that could have been tusks for all I knew:


    7. Even the white elephant will rot away and leave only his tusks behind,” he said as he pointed the gun squarely at Ethan’s head, ready to take a final, murderous shot


    8. on Tonga, but he decided not to step into it in case there were the same kind of monsters that appeared on old sailors maps with tusks and ridiculously sized heads


    9. His large teeth resembled the tusks of a warthog warrior as they sliced his gums open and he hissed at me, bringing his face close to mine, holding the back of my head, my hair twisted in his claws


    10. ” one of the gargoyles stated in a gravely voice, with a grin that revealed a startling amount of sharply pointed gray teeth between his protruding tusks

    11. Or walrus tusks!" Haki staggered around the cluttered deck, pretending that he was wearing a helmet with gigantic, heavy horns


    12. Running ahead of Callum, Braden slipped, and the angered animal split his gut with its long, sharp tusks


    13. It was a wild boar, thirty feet high, with a snotty pink snout and tusks the size of canoes


    14. " REEEEEEEEET!" it squealed, and raked the three skeletons aside with its tusks


    15. It lashed out with its tusks and pulverized the WELCOME TO CLOUDCROFT sign


    16. The beast pawed the sand, glaring at me with beady eyes as it lowered its razor-sharp tusks and waited for the command to kill


    17. It was being held down by ten hunters; it must have been at least two thousand pounds with a fluffy brown and white coat, paws the size of moving carts, and long tusks that curled up in the air


    18. Some elephants were throwing people all around with their ten tusks


    19. With a flash of white tusks, the monster charged


    20. The ape maintained his grasp in Conan's hair, dragging him toward the tusks that glistened in the moonlight

    21. With a curse Conan struck off his head; and the head soared from the ground and snapped beast-like tusks into his throat


    22. Neither tearing tusks nor trampling feet had touched her


    23. Instantly the brute saw him; its great yellow tusks gleamed in the shadows, but it made no sound


    24. That is to say, they had learned to work crudely in copper and tin, which were found scantily in their country, and for which latter metal they raided into the mountains of Zingara, or traded hides, whale's teeth, walrus tusks and such few things as savages have to trade


    25. The ivory-like tusks protruding from his upper jaw cleared the lip by a good four inches, their posterior edge honed razor sharp by years of competition with the lower pair


    26. The sickening ―Wop, wop, wo-op‖ of the saber like tusks hitting the bull‘s tensed abdominal muscles disrupted the pre-dawn stillness like a boulder hitting quiet water


    27. the rhinos, an elephant's tusks are the most valuable part of


    28. Elephant tusks are used in Asia, especially China, in


    29. countless tusks or tusk by-products ended up in Europe and the


    30. And its eye catching body did not stop there; on the end of its chin it hand two black tusks as long as Joey’s forearm

    31. They were not as muscular as their parents as yet, and the males hadn’t grown their tusks as their fathers have


    32. Redbolt kept them at bay from him with his swinging tusks


    33. With a swing of his tusks Redbolt cleared two of the gufders in front of him


    34. Joey gritted his teeth and strained to lift the animal’s head, slipping the loop over the tusks and down its thick neck


    35. Then comes Final Jeopardy and Alex has huge bat wings and tusks jutting out of his dripping maw and the audience is a choir of demons and the word “jeopardy” starts to echo in my head with such ferocity that I can barely make out the question


    36. When a mastodon was within a foot of goring him with one of its monstrous tusks, Schnottweiper was there to put that mastodon down with a brain-bashing swipe of his club


    37. As it ran toward Slimegobbler, the big beast shook its head, meaning to gore the troll in front of him with its massive tusks


    38. “Wondrous, hairy creatures they are,” said the vendor, “bigger ’n a whale, each with eight tusks


    39. leader said digging his big lower tusks into the meat


    40. The enormous creature resembled nothing more than a sasquatch equipped with vicious looking tusks

    41. It stood nearly ten feet tall and had the form of a large silver gorilla, except with tusks


    42. In that smile the tusks thickened showing the boars’ intent was not one of joy but


    43. But it seemed to be even larger and with an even more ferocious and snarling grimace, the green eyes glaring and the green tongue lolling out of its jaws, flanked by two gleaming yellow tusks of teeth


    44. "Help these men load the tusks onto their boat," she instructed


    45. Erlandr strolled over to Goll, who was standing beside the pile of tusks stacked against the house, beaming


    46. And they're not elephant tusks," he said


    47. "They're walrus tusks


    48. " Goll picked up one of the tusks and weighed it in his hand


    49. It was remarkable that his tusks didn’t pierce his long bearded face when he talked:


    50. Berunni gritted tusks and spurned physical burn





































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    Synonyms for "tusk"

    tusk ivory detusk horn outgrowth spike tooth

    "tusk" definitions

    a hard smooth ivory colored dentine that makes up most of the tusks of elephants and walruses


    a long pointed tooth specialized for fighting or digging; especially in an elephant or walrus or hog


    stab or pierce with a horn or tusk


    remove the tusks of animals