Example sentences for: ivory

How can you use “ivory” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Years ago, in college, Jack impulsively married smart but prissy Judy (Miranda Richardson), unaware that by doing so, he was entering a stifling ivory tower.

  • There's a man's svelte blazer tailored in a red-flowered ivory brocade.

  • But my book describes a present political attitude, not the Ivory Tower.

  • The first, the Museo Nacional de Arte Hispano-Musulmán (Museum of Hispano-Moorish Art), displays such evocative artifacts as the throne of the Nasrids, a wooden armchair inlaid with silver and ivory, and the Alhambra Vase, which once graced the Hall of the Two Sisters.

  • Mainly this is because leading university departments value technical skill and originality rather than ideology (in fact, the profession is startlingly apolitical, given how politics-driven economics is outside the ivory tower).


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