Example sentences for: ivy

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

  • I just wanted to make a comment on your "Diaries" of Ivy League students (Bisen-Hersh and Trachtenberg) that, in your words, "tell us what life at these top schools is really like."

  • The nondrinking, nonsmoking, noncarousing, and mostly monolingual CIA officials of today do not have the vices of either their more adventurous contemporaries or their flamboyant Ivy League predecessors, but it is really unfair to expect them to cope with all those foreigners out there.

  • The man who once represented the future of literature--and, to some, still does--is bogged down in Ivy League revue-style japery circa 1958.

  • And as you point out, it is the middle classes, and I would add, the upper working class, that seem most resentful, even though the children of the latter will go neither to the Ivy Leagues nor the flagship state universities.

  • They may not know much of the world, but they certainly understand what the high school rewards, and it ain't learning about Jefferson or Malcolm X. Indeed, the grand prize for doing well academically at public high school is to get you as far away as possible from it, to the Ivy League and its ilk.


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