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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Drago applied his fingers to some of the strings and adjusted a turnkey on the end of one of the tusks.
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Finely sculpted and painted a glossy orange, the tusks and trunks jutted out like bright brass horns from the wooden bars.
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I wanted to look in a mouth to see where those tusks were anchored.
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Males also often have body scars and broken tusks, suggestive of combat.
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Since tusks continue to grow throughout an elephant's life, the amount of ivory carried by the herds will also increase.
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There are pigmy giraffes, large giraffes with moose-like antlers and elephant-like creatures with downward-curving tusks in the lower jaw.
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Two large tusks and whiskers were clearly visible.
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Walrus tusks were essentially substitutes for ivory in territories remote from supplies of elephant tusks.