Pronunciation of tortoise

Pronunciation of the English word tortoise.

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Pronounce tortoise in English


tortoise in a sentence

# Sentence  
1. Others hold that the earth has nine corners by which the heavens are supported. Another disagreeing from these would have the earth supported by seven elephants, and the elephants do not sink down because their feet are fixed on a tortoise. When asked who would fix the body of the tortoise, so that it would not collapse, he said that he did not know.
2. The small island looked like a tortoise from a distance.
3. The hare was outdistanced by the tortoise.
4. A hare raced with a tortoise.
5. The hare was overtaken by the tortoise.
6. The Galapagos Islands giant tortoise known as Lonesome George is dead.
7. The giant tortoise Lonesome George has died on the Galapagos Islands.
8. Lonesome George, the last remaining tortoise of his kind, died of unknown causes.
9. Lonesome George was the last giant tortoise of his kind.
10. The world rests upon an elephant and the elephant rests upon a tortoise.

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