white elephant
Example Sentences
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The film was Titanic - a notorious white elephant, dismissed as a vanity project, and predicted to bring about the collapse of film studios Fox and Paramount.
From BBC ● Dec. 12, 2025
Not even the banks know what to do with this gargantuan white elephant.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2025
According to Buddhist lore, when she conceived, the queen dreamed that an auspicious white elephant entered her womb.
From Seattle Times ● May 11, 2024
In 2002 Lorn - by then a student in Glasgow - found a small white elephant in a gift shop and sent it to her granny for Christmas.
From BBC ● Dec. 27, 2023
On the page, red diamond-covered trailers passed by first, and each one advertised its contents: roaring lions and tigers, charging rhinos and furious hippos, and a majestic white elephant at the very end.
From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton
