mammoth

Converse of object

• think: I didn't think Mammoths could ever hold a candle to a well-trained battle horse.
• find: We have found mammoths quick frozen which suggests that there was an instant cooling period.

Adjective modifier

• wooly: Shoot the three wooly mammoths to get extra lives.
• frozen: Even the famed frozen mammoths get a look in ( the box is charmingly entitled ' ancient guts ' ).
• early: Early Pleistocene mammoths were extremely large, but the animals got notably smaller over time.

Modifies a noun

• tusk: Sections of mammoth tusks have been discovered in local gravel pits.
• task: Such a mammoth task will take Friends of the Ionian several months to complete.
• undertaking: The Authors tell us that the preparation of the 2005 edition of Blackstone's Criminal Practice has been a mammoth undertaking.
• tooth: The problems begin with earlier isolated artifacts such as the ` engraved ' mammoth tooth from Tata, Hungary.
• proportion: Tony Byrne Guitar Born in Dublin in 1979, Tony Byrne is a musician of mammoth proportions.
• bone: A closer look shows the mammoth bones being excavated.

Modifying Another Word

• truly: A truly mammoth televisual operation was at its end.
• pretty: Divers installed some of the essential lane cable anchor points in the finish area - a pretty mammoth project all round!

Noun used with modifier

• PC: It is an accomplished product which will be serious competition for comparable Windows laptops from PC mammoths like Dell and HP.

Preposition: in

• size: Gone are the days when the desktop were mammoth in size and monitors of the size of televisions.