ivory
Example Sentences
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The head is brown to black and has several ivory to yellowish spots, which helps separate it from its native counterpart, the smoke-tree sharpshooter.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026
He’s raced to find ivory shoes for a forgetful groomsman and led a prayer to calm a jittery future husband.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026
It’s usually wrong to stand in your ivory tower shouting out the window that a broad swath of people in the market are mistaken.
From Barron's • May 15, 2026
Despite their evolutionary distance, the team discovered that both butterflies and moths repeatedly relied on the same two genes, ivory and optix, to produce nearly identical warning colors.
From Science Daily • May 4, 2026
He saw large brown eyes, leathery gray ears that looked familiar but wrong, a trunk, and sharp ivory tusks longer than his arms.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
Vocabulary lists containing ivory
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