Example sentences for: irreverent

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

  • 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."

  • In the "Religion" thread, one irreverent poster asked, "Is Gandhi burning in hell?"

  • 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.

  • 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.

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


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