Example sentences for: irrational

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

  • And while Theroux has never been noted for his celebration of the milk of human kindness--at his worst, he is so unrelentingly peeved with others that one wonders why he bothered to write about them--he does have an eye for the differences among people and among peoples, and a shrewd understanding of the irrational annoyance those differences provoke.

  • Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan briefly shook world financial markets a couple of weeks ago with a single question: "How do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values?"

  • The opposition was "completely irrational," said the paper, "[b]ut since the nuclear five did not want their right to commit mass murder to be compromised in any way, they ultimately had their way."

  • Discrimination is economically irrational, which means that companies which discriminate against women should feel the pain in reduced competitiveness.

  • "It gives us the impression that we're supposed to take drastic, irrational revenge as a larky laff riot," says the Los Angeles Times ' Kevin Thomas.


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