Sentencedict.com
 Directly to word page Vague search(google)
Home > Irony in a sentence

Irony in a sentence

  up(1)  down(6)
Sentence count:164+5Posted:2016-07-21Updated:2020-07-24
Synonym: caustic remarksarcasmsatireSimilar words: ironicallyenvironmentalenvironmental protectiona pair ofagonycolonyharmonyceremonyMeaning: ['aɪə(r)nɪ]  n. 1. witty language used to convey insults or scorn 2. incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs 3. a trope that involves incongruity between what is expected and what occurs. 
Random good picture Not show
31. She has no ear for irony.
32. I heard the irony in my voice, the bitterness.
33. It made me jealous with its wit and irony....
34. The novel is infused with humor, irony,(http://sentencedict.com/irony.html) and grief.
35. Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge. Mason Cooley 
36. Attack it with irony, with anger, coyness, doubt.
37. All this without a trace of irony.
38. And the bitterest irony of all was that he himself was a victim.
39. He was a redoubtable debater with a caustic tongue in polemics and a nice touch in irony in writing.
40. There was, indeed, a kind of cruel irony in the collapse of the irrigation companies.
41. But her scenarios are without irony, studies of skin as flesh rather than repositories of myth and moral fable.
42. By a cruel irony, it was the sixth anniversary of their engagement.
43. Greater is the irony that twenty years earlier the open mind for this view was well established in economic circles.
44. Perhaps the author is being satirical, employing irony, allegory, or ambiguity.
45. Finally, for both Wimsatt and Brooks a defining characteristic of poetry was irony.
46. Noting the irony, Johnson just shook her head and rolled her eyes.
47. The irony is that population growth itself eats away at development potential.
48. Stranger still, this particular exhibit is presented without a trace of irony.
49. It was the first time Carolyn had heard her without that note of irony in her voice.
50. As one philosopher interviewed in the film notes, they lack irony.
51. The irony we often fail to appreciate is that the more justice people enjoy, the fewer crimes they commit.
52. Treat it with dashes of irony, danger, threat ... use contrasts.
53. The irony is that in other Arab countries it is the opposition that impugns democracy as the constitutional foundation of the republic.
54. His work is thus marked with a bitter irony which permeated not only the substance of his theory but also its method.
55. Ask his London counterpart about private cash and she talks, without irony, of the proceeds from donation boxes.
56. What vindictive irony, to force Digby to sacrifice his entire career in transport over a railways announcement!
57. He was not without humour, but completely impervious to Jane's irony.
58. There was a strange irony in his voice as if he were an old man who saw through everything.
59. Yet her simple, economical prose can carry irony as well as depth of feeling.
60. A recent editorial cartoon by Tom Toles caught the irony in all of this.
More similar words: ironicallyenvironmentalenvironmental protectiona pair ofagonycolonyharmonyceremonyanonymoustestimonybronzebear onpatronstronggo wrongchronicborder onconfrontfrontierin front ofastronomerelectronicelectronicsthe front lineconfrontation
Total 164, 30 Per page  2/6  «first  pre  next  last»  goto
Leave a comment
Welcome to leave a comment about this page!
Your name:
Latest commentsInto the comment page>>
More words