Examples of mahout in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web However, past footage appears to show a mahout provoking a swimming elephant to repeatedly dive and surface to entertain the audience. — David Luekens, CNN, 21 Dec. 2021 The tiny Laotian mahout atop his enormous elephant sparked dreams of jungle journeys across Southeast Asia. — Andrew Nelson, WSJ, 5 June 2020 The mahout was in his thirties and his whole family had worked with elephants. — National Geographic, 29 Oct. 2019 Jongjiangam is a mahout—an elephant caretaker and trainer. — Kirsten Luce, National Geographic, 29 Oct. 2019 But not everyone mahout in Ban Ta Klang has the privilege of inheritance. — Kirsten Luce, National Geographic, 29 Oct. 2019 Shell meets Indian mahouts—or elephant keepers—and the animals themselves, which have unique personalities and striking intelligence. — Andrea Gawrylewski, Scientific American, 1 June 2019 Most of these elephants, who are old and weak, are also sometimes beaten mercilessly by drunk mahouts. — Sangeeta Tanwar, Quartz India, 13 June 2019 Burmese mahouts are becoming younger and are rotating elephants rather than developing long-term bonds. — Rafil Kroll-zaidi, Harper's magazine, 10 May 2019 See More

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