Example sentences for: ironically

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

  • Ironically, much of the optimism that life could exist in Europa's ocean arises from the recent discovery that microbes are thriving in an even less hospitable environment: volcanic vents on the Earth's ocean floor.

  • Perhaps ironically, museum populism comes with a tendency toward corporate exploitation.

  • Ironically, replenishment capabilities would be of most value to the retailer for fashion products, but because of their short product lives and the unpredictability of demand, fashion products are typically not offered on a replenishment basis.

  • It doesn't matter, they say, whether people are butchered ironically in films such as Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers or Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs . Here, I think the difference between the response of an adult and that of a child becomes crucial.

  • Four years later, when Savonarola declined to test the validity of his apocalyptic prophesies with an ordeal by fire, he was arrested, hanged, and ironically burned on the Piazza della Signoria.


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