Example sentences for: irreverent

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

  • And the old Dublin is with us, too — the irreverent city of wit and charm and that peculiar magic possessed by Ireland and the Irish.

  • If I was forced to pick one (and only one) favorite bit, I think I would have to go with the equation of Starbucks coffee shops with sophistication--perhaps the single most novel, irreverent idea I've ever read in Slate.

  • Children--and, in earlier times, illiterates--often took snippets of liturgical texts which they had heard in church on Sunday, adapting sing-song versions of them for their own irreligious and irreverent use on Monday.

  • An informal, slightly irreverent name, corresponding to such slangy American contractions as Chi, Philly, and Frisco, that spans the official mutations is Piter (pronounced roughly like English Peter ).

  • I have never come across a contrepèterie that was not off-color or irreverent, or touched on sex.


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