Example sentences for: irrational

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

  • 2) It was Plath's demons--her illness and irrational anger--that made her poems powerful.

  • As to an all-male priesthood, I do think it's an unconscionable and irrational form of institutional sexism, and I oppose it on the same grounds that I oppose reverse discrimination.

  • Perhaps Gawande's own prejudices are showing when he simply assumes that the elderly or terminally ill, in wishing to escape from constant pain or degeneration through suicide, are--if not actually addicted or mentally ill--then "obviously" irrational.

  • Clark) who warned against an irrational passion for dispassionate rationality.

  • If the answer were "5 percent of corporate profits," irrational racism would be pretty plausible.


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