Example sentences for: irreverent

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

  • It was also piously believed that speaking truth would always prevail over evil; language was not only a moral weapon, but in Shakespeare's fecund and often irreverent imagination, occasion for exuberant revelry:

  • From the Slate self-reference corner: A NYT "Business" piece analyzes Slate 's Microsoft trial coverage, saying that irreverent descriptions of jowly Microsoft lawyers by Slate 's inaugural courtroom correspondent, Michael Lewis, "seemed mightily unfettered by Microsoft."

  • A story wonders if ESPN's SportsCenter can stay fresh and irreverent.

  • 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.

  • Behind his back, however, irreverent junior faculty referred to him as the Green Dean .


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