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Sentence count:223+6Posted:2017-01-09Updated:2020-07-24
Synonym: boneoff-whitepearltuskSimilar words: divorcesurvivorherbivorouscarnivorousequivocalfrivolousfavorsavorMeaning: ['aɪvərɪ]  n. 1. a hard smooth ivory colored dentine that makes up most of the tusks of elephants and walruses 2. a shade of white the color of bleached bones. 
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91. Tourist souvenirs like furs, ivory, animal skins, coral necklaces and shells can devastate wildlife.
92. Dark-haired and dark-skinned, a pale blue dress and ivory sweater.
93. The long track wound behind me, past dark, high-gabled houses, the hard-packed snow winking in the ivory moonlight.
94. For example, the origin of ivory can be identified by its strontium isotopic composition, which reflects the diet of the elephant.
95. Ivory was used, like shell, to decorate wooden boxes and other pieces of furniture.
96. True ivory is one of the few substances to have been highly esteemed for symbolic purposes wherever it could be obtained.
97. You and your fellow physicists should look out from your ivory towers from time to time.
98. She in turn threw a hairbrush at him, her favorite hairbrush, ivory white, with an embossed back.
99. A small table stood nearby on which ivory chessmen stood poised in combat on an inlaid board.
100. Ivory continued to serve many of the same purposes in Christendom as it did in Classical antiquity.
101. Ivory Coast's government accused supporters of former prime minister Alassane Outtara of attempting a military coup.
102. Both countries are being bled dry by the poachers who supply the ivory trade.
103. Another example of an imported good with a widespread distribution is ivory, which normally occurs as rings.
104. Opt for ivory and pretty pastel shades and mix subtle patterns and textures together.
105. For example, ivory carvers and stone vase makers worked in premises along the Royal Road in Knossos.
106. She tucked her ivory satin shirt tighter into the waistband of her fawn moleskin trousers.
107. First its value was enhanced because, despite being an organic substance, ivory is remarkably durable.
108. The Ivory Coast is a fearful example of what can result from full scale exploitation.
108. Wish you can benefit from our online sentence dictionary and make progress day by day!
109. For heaven's sake, you've been breathing the rarefied air of the ivory tower for as long as I can remember.
110. For real life, visit Moila, the island of the ivory tower.
111. Walrus tusks were essentially substitutes for ivory in territories remote from supplies of elephant tusks.
112. Drastic, unprepared liberalisation can lead to economic chaos, as in the Ivory Coast in 1988.
113. Last month Ivory Coast for the first time missed several key payments on foreign loans.
114. In 1989 he confessed at a show trial to trafficking in gold and ivory, and was shot.
115. Most of the seals were nevertheless made of bone, ivory, steatite, banded agate, or orange carnelian.
116. Generally, though, ivory seems to have been concentrated in and near the temples.
117. She wore an ivory silk blouse, frothing at neck and cuffs.
118. At his hip hung a massively heavy sabre with an ivory hilt.
119. The casket is in rosewood, brass and ivory marquetry.
120. a ban on the ivory trade.
More similar words: divorcesurvivorherbivorouscarnivorousequivocalfrivolousfavorsavorequivocateflavorvortexequivocationfavoredfavoritevoraciousfavorablevoraciouslyunfavorablestorytheoryhistorymemoryfactoryoratorypilloryvictorysensoryallegoryaleatorydilatory
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