How to Use tusk in a Sentence

tusk

1 of 2 noun

• The last four inches of the study mammoth’s tusk, at the tooth’s wide base, record the end of the mammoth’s life.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Aug. 2021
• Hidden in the tusk of a 34-year-old mastodon was a record of time and space that cracked the mystery of his life.
  — Peter Brannen, The Atlantic, 22 June 2022
• The Lystrosaurus was herbivorous, about the size of a pig, with small tusks and a kind of beak.
  — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023
• The ‘Kik’ mammoth tusk used in this project is part of the collection.
  — Sara Harrison, Wired, 12 Aug. 2021
• There were no obvious signs of tusks on the side-scan sonar.
  — Curbed, 18 Jan. 2023
• As the permafrost thaws and riverbanks erode, more tusks will emerge.
  — oregonlive, 5 Oct. 2019
• In that incident, the men sought tusk ivory that can be carved and sold as art.
  — Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 6 July 2018
• The one species, the narwhal, is an Arctic whale known for its huge nine-foot tusk.
  — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 14 Oct. 2020
• The warthog is stout and powerful and has a face-full of tusks, after all.
  — Terry Demio, Cincinnati.com, 30 May 2019
• The scientists cut open one of his eight-foot-long tusks with a huge band saw.
  — Carl Zimmer, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2024
• In its top jaw, the skull featured what looked to be a narwhal tusk, though nowhere near as long.
  — Roni Dengler, Discover Magazine, 20 June 2019
• Rhino horns don’t grow like the antlers of a deer (made of bone) or the tusks of an elephant (giant teeth).
  — Wired, 19 Nov. 2019
• The tusk is believed to belong to a steppe mammoth from before the last ice age.
  — Brittany Kasko, Fox News, 15 July 2023
• The tusk had been found and recovered in just under two hours.
  — New York Times, 22 Nov. 2021
• The babirusa has a set of upper tusks that grow up through the top of its face and has a second set of tusks on the lower jaw.
  — Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 4 Jan. 2024
• Elephant herds were tracked there and hunted for their tusks.
  — Anu Kumar, Quartz India, 26 July 2019
• Another touches the tusk and says the elephant feels like a spear.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Feb. 2021
• Also shown are some of the sampling locations along the middle of the tusk.
  — Sara Harrison, Wired, 12 Aug. 2021
• Experts believe a rival mastodon tusk punctured the right side of his skull and killed the mastodon.
  — Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 13 June 2022
• The tusk came from a male mammoth who lived to be about 28 years old during the last ice age in what is now Alaska.
  — Esther Megbel, Scientific American, 9 Sep. 2021
• Fisher cut a long, thin section from the center of the 9.5-foot-long (3-meter-long) right tusk.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 13 June 2022
• And low-ranking Wynona, who was missing her left tusk, had her two-year-old calf Lucy in tow.
  — Caitlin O'Connell, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2021
• It has now been confirmed that the tusk, which measures more than three feet in length, is from a Columbian mammoth.
  — Catherine Garcia, The Week, 23 Nov. 2021
• The elephant ran a tusk through his leg, narrowly missing the femoral artery.
  — Margalit Fox, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2020
• Each blind man feels a different part of the elephant, but only one part, like the trunk, side, or tusk.
  — Tony Gambill, Forbes, 12 Oct. 2021
• Or perhaps a narwhal uses its tusk to flush out prey on the ocean bottom.
  — Matt Simon, Wired, 1 Apr. 2021
• The term describes a bull elephant with tusks that weigh more than 99 pounds each.
  — Nicholas Komu, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2026
• Jakob stored some of his meat, narwhal tusks, and seal and polar-bear skins and sold the rest, both privately and to the store.
  — Ben Taub, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
• In it lay a massive white tusk.
  — AFAR Media, 30 Oct. 2025
• For more than five hundred years, scientists had been unable to figure out the purpose of the narwhal’s tusk— a single tooth that can be up to nine feet long.
  — Literary Hub, 28 Oct. 2025

tusk

2 of 2 verb

• He also was ordered to transfer the elephant’s tusks back to the Zimbabwean government.
  — Washington Post, 22 May 2018
• In fact, last July Hong Kong authorities seized 7.2 tons of elephant tusks hidden under a shipment of frozen fish from Malaysia, the largest ivory bust.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 2 Feb. 2018
• My planet also has live, feathered, beaky skeletons flying through the environment, and big, heavy creatures that are tusked and trunked and have sad, long memories and wash their bodies in cold mud puddles and know who their babies are.
  — Jenny Slate, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2019
• Sulawesi is home to species found nowhere else, including vibrant hornbills, miniature water buffalo, tusked deer-pigs and some tarsiers, a small, nocturnal primate.
  — Ian Morse, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Nov. 2019
• Now American Airlines is telling passengers some of their service and emotional support animals — including goats, hedgehogs and tusked creatures — can’t fly.
  — Lauren Zumbach, chicagotribune.com, 14 May 2018