Example sentences for: sarcasm

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

  • Such pleasantries are clearly intended to be both polite and friendly, and responding to proffered congeniality with disdain, reproof, or sarcasm is nothing short of boorish.

  • 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 Redcliff Ascent Outdoor Therapy Program provides group counseling and forbids sarcasm.

  • Irony of statement, or sarcasm, seems close: exclaiming, “What a surprise!”

  • The Wicked Witch, especially, uses terms of endearment ( my little pretty, my fine gentlemen ) when addressing others; but her menacing face and gestures, her vicious sarcasm, her screaming laughter, and her saccharine voice while uttering those polite-sounding addresses and scary death-threats are much more effective and nasty than simple name-calling would be.


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