elephant
Example Sentences
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At times, you could almost forget about the elephant in the room.
From Los Angeles Times
The discoveries included a silver, gold and garnet bird's-head terminal with elephant ivory inlays, possibly from a drinking-horn, several gold rings, and other metal objects.
From BBC
A female elephant can live as long as 80 years, yet she produces only a small number of calves over her lifetime.
From Science Daily
My answer is psychology—the psychology of the elephant in the room.
Only about 30 of these oversize beasts, the largest specimens of Earth’s largest land animal, currently exist in Kenya, where this “Nature” program studies the elephants living within Amboseli National Park.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
