How To Use White elephant In A Sentence
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The new office block has become an expensive white elephant.
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An expensive new joint project with Argentina to build a pressurized propjet became a white elephant when not a single plane was sold.
Stumbling Toward Innovation
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Both schemes have been criticised as potential white elephants.
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Books went well, as did glass and china ware on the White Elephant stall.
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This white elephant of a venue must revitalise fast if racing is to be secured.
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Could the museum that oil and gas built turn out to be a white elephant?
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After just one win in his first six races for Pipe, he was beginning to look something of a white elephant.
The Sun
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Few would argue with the case for reviewing what looks like a nuclear white elephant.
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Expect to be snapping white elephants, giraffes and stunning views as the sun dips behind palm trees.
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The half-completed International Space Station has been described as an unjustifiable "white elephant".
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Its victims are usually poor folk made poorer by the white elephants their leaders have inflicted on them.
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Books went well, as did glass and china ware on the White Elephant stall.
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There is also an incongruous pink giraffe and white elephant in the stained-glass window over the main door.
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It will now be a sunken white elephant and a permanent memorial to council incompetence.
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They may end up with white elephants rather than hubs of international commerce.
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The dam has become something of a white elephant.
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When the theatre first opened it was widely regarded as a white elephant.
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Few would argue with the case for reviewing what looks like a nuclear white elephant.
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They may end up with white elephants rather than hubs of international commerce.
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The new office block has become an expensive white elephant.
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Saracen ambassadors bring Charlemagne a white elephant complete with exotic trappings.
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Saracen ambassadors bring Charlemagne a white elephant complete with exotic trappings.
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The aussies are also looking at a replacement for the M113 called the bushmaster, again it has all the makings of a white elephant, I saw one at Enoggra (aus army garrison) when I enquired to the drive "how well" it went he simply replied "dunno mate its hasnt moved for two months!
Army Rumour Service
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Expect to be snapping white elephants, giraffes and stunning views as the sun dips behind palm trees.
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Stalls include work stall, country produce, cake stall, white elephant, books, hoopla and teas.
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It will now be a sunken white elephant and a permanent memorial to council incompetence.
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‘That not a white elephant, that's a blue elephant,’ blurted Jim, now in convulsions of laughter at what he thought was a brilliant joke.
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The house had long been looked upon as something of a white elephant in the theatrical jungle; but Lumley, being pushful and knowledgeable, soon built up a valuable following and set the establishment on its legs.
The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert
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After just one win in his first six races for Pipe, he was beginning to look something of a white elephant.
The Sun
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The pavilion has become a ￡14 million steel and glass white elephant.
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Few would argue with the case for reviewing what looks like a nuclear white elephant.
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The White Elephant waved his trunk around at the village.
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Cake and white elephant stalls plus a grand prize draw.
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When the theatre first opened it was widely regarded as a white elephant.
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Why are we not aware of the ridiculous amounts spent on such white elephants?
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A bonze asserts that Fo is a God, that he was foretold by fakirs, that he was born of a white elephant, and that every bonze can by certain grimaces make a Fo.
A Philosophical Dictionary
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Critics say his resettlement plan is a white elephant.
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The new office block has become an expensive white elephant.
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From a Chemical & Engineering News account at the time: "While some depictions are chemically accurate -- such as nitrogen, which shows a rooted elephant drawing nitrogen from the soil -- others are more a play on the names -- for example, the masked Lone Ranger atop a rearing white elephant representing silver.
Science
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When the theatre first opened it was widely regarded as a white elephant.
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What do you do with a huge white elephant like that?
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There's this picturesque white elephant development on the Costa del Sol, apparently going for a song.
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Few would argue with the case for reviewing what looks like a nuclear white elephant.
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Few would argue with the case for reviewing what looks like a nuclear white elephant.
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That super size desk is a white elephant to his room.
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Few would argue with the case for reviewing what looks like a nuclear white elephant.
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In 1855 (during the reign of King Rama IV; Mongkut) the white chakra was dropped and thus the vexillum was a red field with a white elephant in the centre.
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More spaces are needed at less cost not another white elephant office block.
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The pavilion has become a ￡14 million steel and glass white elephant.
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What Pontiac has had from the begining is a white elephant that the people couldn't afford.
Undefined
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Setting some kind of record for foot dragging in this sometimes maddeningly stodgy town, the campaign to replace our 40-year-old white elephant of a hall is now nearly half as old as that unbeloved building itself.
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The cannery was a white elephant, without takers in the market.
Poor Man's Rock
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Now people in the West calk a useless thing "a white elephant".
