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.
• The good professor has spent too much time in his ivory tower.
  — WSJ, 20 Apr. 2021
• Winona is naïve, trapped in the ivory tower of her father’s making.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 12 Sep. 2019
• That body of ivory tower scholarship isn’t even taught in public schools.
  — Clarence Page, chicagotribune.com, 2 Nov. 2021
• But economists are super-slow to learn — way too ivory towered.
  — Ken Fisher, USA TODAY, 6 May 2018
• Her playing, however, is light-years away from the ivory tower.
  — Washington Post, 15 Feb. 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
• Some young scientists are more likely to leave the ivory tower than others.
  — Jonathan Wosen, STAT, 15 Dec. 2023
• There’s a reason that ideas from the progressive ivory tower need to be tested.
  — Editorial, Boston Herald, 20 Feb. 2025
• Had the network declined the option, there would have been panic in the streets and ivory towers alike.
  — Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 31 Jan. 2025
• Arkansas has been a mess this week because of the splinter cells within the ivory tower.
  — Eric Bolin, ajc, 1 Dec. 2017
• An ivory tower above and beyond the messy planes of politics is an illusion.
  — Yangyang Cheng, The Atlantic, 23 Nov. 2021
• Now the most frightening versions are taking shape, as specters in the hallways of the ivory tower.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 30 Mar. 2025
• Sucks to come down from the ivory tower for a little accountability, huh?
  — Kaitlyn McGrath, The Athletic, 7 Aug. 2024
• Isn’t the genre about getting into people’s psyche through a back door, not climbing an ivory tower?
  — Maya Ibbitson, Architectural Digest, 23 Dec. 2024
• Genius isn’t just some ivory tower thing that predominantly white men have.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 17 June 2021
• Are there potential regulators who aren’t off in their own versions of an ivory tower?
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 19 Mar. 2023
• Where else could award winning writers pop off about nothing at all, and nobodies could rattle the ivory towers?
  — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 Nov. 2025
• There’s no point in me doing academia, sitting in my ivory tower, not interacting with anyone.
  — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 24 Feb. 2023
• That argument has been very influential, both in the ivory tower and beyond.
  — Sigal Samuel, Vox, 7 Dec. 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• No diva designer-in-the-ivory tower behavior here.
  — Luisa Zargani, Footwear News, 26 Sep. 2025
• 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
• 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
• Their relatable approach is often miles away from the ivory tower that has represented the monarchy in the past.
  — Rachel Burchfield, InStyle, 13 Mar. 2026
• Lifted on its piers, the marine center looks like a literal embodiment of the ivory tower metaphor.
  — Boyce Upholt, WIRED, 19 Nov. 2022