Used in a Sentence

elephant

How to use elephant in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for elephant.

Editorial note

So let's deal with the elephant in the room: the OpenBSD project is run by complete and utter jerks.

Examples15
Definitions2
Parts of speech1

Quick take

five-toed pachyderm

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of elephant gathered in one view.

noun

five-toed pachyderm

noun

the symbol of the Republican Party; introduced in cartoons by Thomas Nast in 1874

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for elephant.

noun

five-toed pachyderm

noun

the symbol of the Republican Party; introduced in cartoons by Thomas Nast in 1874

Example sentences

1

So let's deal with the elephant in the room: the OpenBSD project is run by complete and utter jerks.

2

I know its not the elephant in the managed source code hosting space, but I like BitBucket better then Github.

3

Were I watching a local hunt for this elephant to feed their family I would feel that the death was justified.

4

Despite the fact that Groupon's sustainability had been the elephant in the room the whole time.

5

One of the reasons discussions of OOP leave me feeling dissatisfied is that OOP has a "blind men and the elephant" problem.

6

The giant elephant in the room is being overlooked: Advertisements have a lifespan measured in months, weeks, or days.

7

But the elephant herd of legacy vendors to find your way around is extremely intimidating.

8

There are many ways of controlling "problem elephants" other than killing them -- in fact, killing an elephant is almost never an option.

9

Now that "Daily Deals" have become an elephant's graveyard of broken dreams and wasted billions it's not that interesting in a meta context.+ What's the Hook?

10

In the all-too-common cases where elephants are killed illegally, any stray documentary crews would also be killed, with all the bodies left to rot.

11

Ascending the summit of Everest is ultimately meaningless; killing an elephant who was destroying crops and feeding an African village is quite meaningful.

12

The most interesting part of that article is the non-chalant last line: "Once the [wooly mammoth's] tissues have been treated to a nuclear transfer process, the eggs will be implanted into the womb of a live elephant for a 22-month pregnancy.

13

I think this should be obvious to anybody that thinks about economics at all, and I think this is the absolutely massive achilles' heel for supply-side economics, the elephant in the room that people don't want to talk about.

14

"If I had before me a fly and an elephant, having never seen more than one such magnitude of either kind; and if the fly were to endeavor to persuade me that he was larger than the elephant, I might by possibility be placed in a difficulty.

15

No one is questioning his freedom to do what he chooses.> He does certain things for shock value...True but I think killing an elephant and then posting a video about it is a bit different than showing scantily clad women dancing on the hood of a convertible.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use elephant in a sentence?

So let's deal with the elephant in the room: the OpenBSD project is run by complete and utter jerks.

What does elephant mean?

five-toed pachyderm

What part of speech is elephant?

elephant is commonly used as noun.