The word "ivy" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it to refer to a variety of plants which typically have green, woody stems and leaves that adhere to walls and other surfaces to climb. Example sentence: The ivy clung to the brick wall of the old building.
It is true that much of the legislation – the series of counter-terrorism acts, the long battle over how long someone can be detained without trial, the creeping ivy of surveillance – was justified on the grounds of terrorism.
The deletions included acorn, adder, ash, beech, bluebell, buttercup, catkin, conker, cowslip, cygnet, dandelion, fern, hazel, heather, heron, ivy, kingfisher, lark, mistletoe, nectar, newt, otter, pasture and willow.
They are stuffed full of the children of the elite, going out of their way to recruit the offspring of alumni, celebrities, potential donors and the well-connected, and are increasingly out of reach of the white working class.I have tried to substantiate these arguments in several articles in The Economist, particularly "Ever higher society, ever harder to ascend" and "Poison ivy".
Ivy soon realises Miss Fox, the deputy head, is very sinister and soon she forces Ivy to take Scarlet's place, becoming her twin.
Ivy lives with her slightly crazy aunt while her twin, Scarlet, is at Rookwood School.
Scarlet and Ivy are like day and night, like chalk and cheese.
Let's assume that Charlie, our hypothetical Ivy-bound high school senior, decides he's going to Yale and he's going to borrow to make up the shortfall.
The 18th-century, ivy-clad farmhouse is split into five apartments so your children are likely to find playmates but the pool will never get too busy.
Austin, a successful, Ivy-League-educated screenwriter is house-sitting for his mother.
Mr Obama is an Ivy-League-educated intellectual whose associates include unrepentant terrorists and swivel-eyed preachers.
Commentators have noticed that the current court, for example, is all-Ivy in origin.
