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.

  • (Although, even in the transcripts, you could see some definite hostility and sarcasm, which Rauch seemed to pointedly miss.)

  • Joe Morgenstern, the Wall Street Journal ) are outnumbered by the detractors ("hopelessly overwrought and deeply dopey," Richard Schickel, Time ), who say 1) it's not remotely scary; 2) the sarcasm and self-conscious irony grow tiresome; 3) it's permeated with anti-Arab racism; and 4) the mummy isn't a real mummy, he's "a mutating Industrial Light and Magic Special Effect" (David Edelstein,

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

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


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