WALRUS in a Sentence

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1. A walrus spouts much like a whale, but the walrus is not a fish, because he is amphibious.
2. In fur coats and mufflers tied over caps they were a strange company, bears and walruses talking.
3. As if the waves had been fullers, this craft was bleached like the skeleton of a stranded walrus.
4. The walrus, which is hunted by the Eskimo in kayak and from ice flow, is also sought after by the Hudson's Bay Company.

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walrus
 n.  very large marine mammal of the seal family, native of the Arctic Ocean
Classic Sentence:
1  A walrus spouts much like a whale, but the walrus is not a fish, because he is amphibious.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32. Cetology.
2  As if the waves had been fullers, this craft was bleached like the skeleton of a stranded walrus.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 52. The Albatross.
3  In fur coats and mufflers tied over caps they were a strange company, bears and walruses talking.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
Example Sentence:
1  The walrus, which is hunted by the Eskimo in kayak and from ice flow, is also sought after by the Hudson's Bay Company.