Example sentences for: irreverent

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

  • The Festival Fringe, perhaps Dr. Jekyll to the International Festival’s Mr. Hyde, is an umbrella title given to thousands of performances ranging from the avant-garde to the downright irreverent.

  • Fox rejoined that "an irreverent comedy that can't raise a clergyman's eyebrows isn't doing its job."

  • 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.

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

  • It is too cynical to foresee that some irreverent smarty-pants will one day pry and dig and garner further items of unintentional humor out of our supreme poet's writings?


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