HIPPOPOTAMUS in a Sentence
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Example sentences for HIPPOPOTAMUS, such as:Pava, a perfect beauty, huge as a hippopotamus, with her back turned to them, prevented their seeing the calf, as she sniffed her all over.
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Meanings and Examples of HIPPOPOTAMUS
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hippopotamus
n. massive thick-skinned herbivorous animal living in or around rivers of tropical Africa
Classic Sentence:
1 Pava, a perfect beauty, huge as a hippopotamus, with her back turned to them, prevented their seeing the calf, as she sniffed her all over.
2 She tried to follow him, but Marius walked briskly, and with immense strides; it was a hippopotamus undertaking the pursuit of a chamois.
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