Example sentences for: ironies

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

  • Critics note two other ironies: 1) Schindler's List is the most graphic program ever shown on network television.

  • If he's aware of us at all, my friends and I,in a back booth farthest from the stage, what are webut the proverbial rubes, sight-seeing frat boyson a sleazy lark, too loud, too talkative, gigglinguneasy ironies about being where we'd never go alone.

  • It's the ex-paramour, not the husband, who hires a detective agency to dog the mysteriously wayward Sarah, and--in one of those ironies that feels delightfully postmodern--it's Maurice himself who ends up being trailed by a Cockney gumshoe, Parkis (an amusingly earnest Ian Hart), when Sarah reinitiates contact.

  • The unnoted ironies pile up: Their fulminations notwithstanding, both McGreevey and Andrews have received better-than-average ratings from green groups.

  • combine a black-and-white shot of Dust Bowl farmers, a fertile California tomato field captured by Edward Weston, and a Technicolor Emerald City from The Wizard of Oz . The ironies aren't always as blunt as these, but in general it is tension, not harmony, that governs the arrangements.


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