How to Use ivory tower in a Sentence

ivory tower

noun

• The book was written by some college professor who's spent her entire professional life in an ivory tower.
• Winona is naïve, trapped in the ivory tower of her father’s making.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 12 Sep. 2019
• From the ivory tower to the kitchen table: there’s a disconnect in the way that work is designed.
  — Chris Westfall, Forbes, 26 Oct. 2021
• The good professor has spent too much time in his ivory tower.
  — WSJ, 20 Apr. 2021
• The Left is a ticking time bomb, and the Right shows little sympathy for those purged by the ivory tower.
  — Aron Ravin, National Review, 3 Apr. 2022
• That is a far cry from the days when its consultants stuck mainly to blue-sky thoughts in their ivory towers.
  — The Economist, 1 Mar. 2018
• By noon, the little ivory tower of the chatroom had gotten sucked in.
  — Veronique Greenwood, Discover Magazine, 2 Mar. 2012
• Arkansas has been a mess this week because of the splinter cells within the ivory tower.
  — Eric Bolin, ajc, 1 Dec. 2017
• That body of ivory tower scholarship isn’t even taught in public schools.
  — Clarence Page, chicagotribune.com, 2 Nov. 2021
• Her playing, however, is light-years away from the ivory tower.
  — Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2022
• Some young scientists are more likely to leave the ivory tower than others.
  — Jonathan Wosen, STAT, 15 Dec. 2023
• But economists are super-slow to learn — way too ivory towered.
  — Ken Fisher, USA TODAY, 6 May 2018
• Must be nice to sit atop that Madison Avenue ivory tower, looking down on us with those luscious locks.
  — Dave Clark, The Enquirer, 27 July 2023
• An ivory tower above and beyond the messy planes of politics is an illusion.
  — Yangyang Cheng, The Atlantic, 23 Nov. 2021
• How does a union that originated on Michigan factory floors fit in the ivory towers of academia?
  — Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press, 19 Feb. 2018
• In some ways, tennis is still an ivory tower sport, but that rep is slowly changing, according to Skye Muller.
  — Kerry Pieri, Harper's BAZAAR, 28 July 2022
• Academia is often thought of as an ivory tower; a place where the brightest and most thirsty minds convene to acquire more knowledge and expertise.
  — Janice Gassam Asare, Forbes, 16 May 2021
• Though many describe her as a visionary, Sullivan would rather chat with students on the quad than dwell in an ivory tower.
  — Rachel Blount, Star Tribune, 31 Aug. 2020
• Outside the ivory tower The challenges faced by schools of public health mirror the broader public health field, especially in the US.
  — Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 7 May 2020
• One way to make academics seem interesting is to thrust them from the ivory tower and into the world, as seen in films from the European art house to Hollywood.
  — Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2023
• Haglund also stressed that not all the most interesting work is relegated to the ivory tower.
  — Tamarra Kemsley, The Salt Lake Tribune, 2 June 2022
• There’s no point in me doing academia, sitting in my ivory tower, not interacting with anyone.
  — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 24 Feb. 2023
• This hybrid practice repeatedly took him out of the academic ivory tower and into rural Africa, the favelas of Rio de Janeiro and hip-hop clubs in the Bronx.
  — New York Times, 12 Dec. 2021
• But the ivory tower ideal of the campus as an arena for the free exchange of ideas — one being challenged at colleges across the country — exploded over the Manning episode.
  — Katharine Q. Seelye, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2017
• Lifted on its piers, the marine center looks like a literal embodiment of the ivory tower metaphor.
  — Boyce Upholt, WIRED, 19 Nov. 2022
• Most of science’s #MeToo stories have been confined to campus, the ivory tower, and raucous conferences at bland hotels.
  — Sarah Scoles, Outside Online, 21 May 2018
• Are there potential regulators who aren’t off in their own versions of an ivory tower?
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 19 Mar. 2023
• Of course, Childs could have entered the federal judiciary's ivory tower years ago.
  — Bakari Sellers, CNN, 4 Feb. 2022
• The crux of the panel was this: After false-start startups and decades relegated to the ivory tower, these panelists believe quantum computing is ready to step into the limelight.
  — Allie Garfinkle, Fortune, 7 Mar. 2024
• Of course, there have long been attempts at political interference in academia, with a distrust of elitism smoldering beneath the widespread disdain for the ivory tower.
  — Pamela Paul, The Mercury News, 15 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 23 Nov 2024