Sentence examples for ivory of from inspiring English sources

Your Yankee Doodles and Sunny Doodles, the ebony and ivory of cupcakes.

The material used is reindeer horn, with the ivory of mammoth tusks also occasionally used.

"Ivory of illegal or unknown origin cannot be sold legally internationally for commercial purposes.

It was already illegal in the UK to trade in raw tusks or unworked ivory of any age.

(The demand for elephant ivory, of course, is also way up; I encourage you to read Alex Shoumatoff's article in Vanity Fair on the ivory trade for more).

Trade in the ivory of African elephants is illegal under the 1975 Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, better known as Cites.

A pound of ivory on the streets of Beijing, he says, now goes for $1,000.

"All sorts of people were funding their wars using the ivory out of the park".

The report also documented an increase in the number of large seizures of ivory - of shipments over 500kg (1,100 pounds), in 2013.

Here, for 18 years, the poet of gentle gothic whimsy - "If I were Lord of Tartery, / Myself and me alone, / My bed should be of ivory, / Of beaten gold my throne" - totted up columns of figures during all the hours of daylight ("the dream of Wake") before plodding home at night over London Bridge to "the dream of Sleep".

Cory Arcangel mashes up YouTube videos of cats creditably tickling the ivories of their owners' pianos.