How to Use elephant in the room in a Sentence

elephant in the room

noun phrase

• The elephant in the room is how to pay for the project.
  — Ron Wood, Arkansas Online, 20 Oct. 2023
• Which brings us to the elephant in the room, um, or the big garbage patch in the room, in the ocean.
  — Quartz Staff, Quartz, 16 May 2023
• The elephant in the room, or rather on the show lawn, is the issue of timing.
  — Viju Mathew, Robb Report, 28 Feb. 2024
• So, what’s the best way to address the flushable elephant in the room?
  — Sharon Greenthal, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 Feb. 2024
• Is the anti-ESG movement the elephant in the room here?
  — Bylila MacLellan, Fortune, 25 July 2023
• Time to go on the hunt, even with an IPO-sized elephant in the room to contend with.
  — Allie Garfinkle, Fortune, 30 Jan. 2024
• The prequels, on the other hand, felt more like an elephant in the room.
  — Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 11 July 2024
• Address the elephant in the room as the sun and Chiron clash.
  — USA TODAY, 6 Jan. 2024
• Shane Gillis acknowledged the elephant in the room right away – sort of.
  — Rebecca Sun, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Feb. 2024
• At one point, Kosher addresses the elephant in the room.
  — Jayson Buford, Rolling Stone, 2 June 2023
• Ellen DeGeneres will soon address the elephant in the room.
  — Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 13 May 2024
• That is the elephant in the room that can't be ignored or unaddressed.
  — Simon Thompson, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2024
• Coaching search won’t be rushed Weaver didn’t waste time addressing the elephant in the room.
  — Detroit Free Press, 11 Apr. 2023
• The Dreyfus case itself remained the major elephant in the room.
  — Maurice Samuels / Made By History, TIME, 21 May 2024
• That’s the elephant in the room that city leaders have refused to acknowledge.
  — Tim Gardner, The Mercury News, 22 June 2024
• Time and again, society pressures people not to see, hear or speak about the elephant in the room.
  — Marianne Cooper, Scientific American, 18 June 2024
• But there’s another elephant in the room, and that’s staff shortages.
  — Beth Ann Mayer, Parents, 2 Feb. 2024
• But despite the absence of Xi, China would have been the elephant in the room throughout Putin and Kim’s meeting.
  — Nectar Gan, CNN, 23 June 2024
• But the elephant in the room is reining in hospitals, which make up the largest portion of U.S. health care spending.
  — Rachel Cohrs, STAT, 26 Oct. 2023
• Yet Ukraine’s shortage of weaponry in the face of nearly five months of Russia’s offensive hung over the whole day like the elephant in the room.
  — Constant Méheut, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2024
• Yet there’s an elephant in the room – more than one actually.
  — Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 11 Jan. 2024
• Yet that line of reasoning ignored a very large elephant in the room—the Colorado River.
  — Erik Vance, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2017
• With fatherhood as the subject of the new series, Frasier’s distance from Freddy feels like the elephant in the room.
  — Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 10 Oct. 2023
• Analysis: Jonathan Taylor remains the elephant in the room here.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 26 Aug. 2023
• Season Three also has to address the other elephant in the room: That some of the new characters still aren’t working.
  — Louis Staples, Rolling Stone, 27 Aug. 2023
• However, the elephant in the room is that the Starliner is unable to leave the ISS except in an emergency.
  — David Szondy, New Atlas, 10 July 2024
• In the end, what Las Vegas and other cities do hardly matters, for the elephant in the room remains agriculture.
  — Wade Davis, Rolling Stone, 3 Sep. 2023
• These bills do not address the elephant in the room, Ticketmaster, and problems that stem from the initial ticket sales.
  — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 24 Feb. 2024
• But Village Keeper does ultimately spear the elephant in the room.
  — Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Sep. 2024
• As in December, the elephant in the room for Fundsmith’s semi-annual results was Nvidia, whose shares have tripled in the last 12 months but have been absent from Smith’s portfolio.
  — Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune Europe, 9 July 2024

Last Updated: 6 Nov 2024