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1. ivory, tusknoun

   a hard smooth ivory colored dentine that makes up most of the tusks of elephants and walruses

   Synonyms:
   bone, off-white, pearl, ivory

2. tuskverb

   a long pointed tooth specialized for fighting or digging; especially in an elephant or walrus or hog

   Synonyms:
   ivory

3. horn, tuskverb

   stab or pierce with a horn or tusk

   "the rhino horned the explorer"

   Synonyms:
   detusk, horn

4. tusk, detuskverb

   remove the tusks of animals

   "tusk an elephant"

   Synonyms:
   detusk, horn

How to use tusk in a sentence?

1. John Cruden:

   Each illegally traded horn or tusk represents not an antique object but a dead animal. Wildlife trafficking entails poaching, bribery, smuggling and organized crime.

2. Jaroslaw Kaczynski:

   A particularly dark role was played by Donald Tusk, who conducted negotiations with the British and in fact contributed to them getting nothing, hence, he is directly responsible for Brexit and should simply disappear from European politics. But this concerns the whole of European Commission in its present composition.

3. Samuel Wasser:

   If you're trying to match one tusk to its pair, you have a low chance of a match. But identifying close relatives is going to be a much more common event, and can link more ivory seizures to the same smuggling networks.

4. Europe Minister David Lidington:

   Things will become clearer, I think, for everybody when the Prime Minister’s letter to (President of the European Council) Donald Tusk is published, which I expect in the first half of next week.

5. Steven Haddock:

   You start to' expect the unexpected' when exploring the deep sea, but I'm still stunned that we came upon the ancient tusk of a mammoth, our work examining this exciting discovery is just beginning and we look forward to sharing more information in the future.

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