Examples of 'elephant in the room' in a sentence

Meaning of "elephant in the room"

a phrase used to describe an obvious problem or issue that is being ignored or avoided in a conversation or situation
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  • A problem or difficult issue that is very obvious, but is ignored for the convenience or comfort of those involved.

How to use "elephant in the room" in a sentence

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elephant in the room
Now go address the elephant in the room.
The elephant in the room is government expenditure.
To talk about the elephant in the room.
The elephant in the room remains unexposed.
Let us broach the elephant in the room.
The elephant in the room is workplace safety.
Anything but the elephant in the room.
The elephant in the room is the union.
I will address the elephant in the room.
The elephant in the room is government spending.
I feel like the elephant in the room.
The elephant in the room is energy security.
Let us address the elephant in the room.
The elephant in the room is still appetite.
Always race is the elephant in the room.

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The elephant in the room is family planning.
Let us get to the elephant in the room.
The elephant in the room is regime change.
They missed the elephant in the room.
The elephant in the room was municipal debt.
Race is often the elephant in the room.
This elephant in the room is often ignored.
One of them is the elephant in the room.
The elephant in the room has been carbohydrates.
It can become the elephant in the room.
The elephant in the room is nuclear power.
Money is often the elephant in the room.
An elephant in the room is something glaringly obvious.
You avoid the elephant in the room.
The elephant in the room is political system.
He is pretty much the elephant in the room.
But the elephant in the room is mobile.
We both know there is an elephant in the room.
The elephant in the room here.
I feel like there is an elephant in the room.
It was the elephant in the room for a long time.
I am addressing the white elephant in the room.
There is an elephant in the room and no one is.
We are forgetting about the elephant in the room.
Address the elephant in the room so to speak.
Do not be afraid to be the elephant in the room.
The other elephant in the room is sex.
That will be as obvious as an elephant in the room.
That elephant in the room is never really mentioned.
It is the proverbial big elephant in the room.
The elephant in the room is not the problem.
But there is a white elephant in the room.
The elephant in the room is jealousy.
I am gonna address the elephant in the room.
Well the elephant in the room is electoral reform.

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