Example sentences for: ironically

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

  • Ironically, Clinton's last two years in office seem certain to be more free of scandal than Bush's or Reagan's.

  • The softhearted spin: Sharpton will suffer the worst damage because, ironically, he is the only one of the advisers to have sought to moderate his public image.

  • Calcutta seems to be the only other production center having any pretensions to artistic creativity at all, but ironically you’re actually more likely to see the works of Satyajit Ray or Mrinal Sen shown in Europe or North America than in India itself.

  • Ironically, there was plenty of food around — corn, cattle, sheep, and flour — but it was not available to the poor.

  • Ironically, though, it was in the United States, between 1890 and 1915, that something very close to Marx's vision of class warfare unfolded--not, as Marx might have predicted, in the nation's industrial centers or financial capitals, but in the mining and logging camps of the West.


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