'tortoise' in a sentence
Learn how to use 'tortoise' with 5 example sentences.
- tortoise noun
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: usually herbivorous land turtles having clawed elephant-like limbs; worldwide in arid areas except Australia and Antarctica
The world rests upon an elephant and the elephant rests upon a tortoise.
Lonesome George, the last remaining tortoise of his kind, died of unknown causes.
The small island looked like a tortoise from a distance.
A hare raced with a tortoise.
Did you know there are carnivorous tortoises?