Example sentences for: sarcasm

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

  • These are examples in which the wording undercuts itself, yet without any apparent sarcasm.

  • After completing her testimony before the Lewinsky grand jury, Linda Tripp gave a prepared statement to the press, from whom her apologia drew sarcasm and incredulity.

  • Grass' sarcasm is a welcome respite from the heavy-handed literalism of so much contemporary Holocaust narrative, from the 1979 television series Holocaust (another mass catalyst for German self-awareness) to Schindler's List to the odious Jakob the Liar . And yet, for all of Grass' rage at Germany's crimes, the fact that The Tin Drum rarely names those crimes or explores their existence, and seems so focused on the souls of the Germans, with little empathy to spare for their victims, makes the book feel more like a step on the way to something than like the thing itself--whether that thing be a more moral or simply a greater work of literature.

  • The movie, with its alliterative abuse, name-calling, taunts, shouting and yelling, threats, scolding, and nasty sarcasm is much livelier and much scarier for children than the book.

  • But the congratulations contained more than a hint of sarcasm.


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