Example sentences for: ironic

How can you use “ironic” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The Economist gets a little closer to the heart of the matter when its editorialist writes, "Many people, when hearing an ironic remark, may not realize that it is meant in jest.

  • The view is conspiratorial, not in the strung-out, scandalized manner of Oliver Stone's JFK but in a cool, ironic way.

  • The very title is a small masterpiece of ironic wit, being a misquotation rather than an accurate transcription from Bacon's essays.

  • Lichtenstein's cartoon style of representation can be seen as an ironic commentary on the elitism of art, implying that art is merely a selection from the endless variety of images that bombard us.

  • Is it not ironic then that they should still perpetuate so blatant a fallacy?


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