Example sentences for: sardonic

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

  • But it is also too rigidly imprisoned in sardonic literary references, or in the movies, or in popular clichés, ever to penetrate its own deepest emotions--which, in any case, are too shameful to be acknowledged.

  • About two-thirds of the way into Burn Rate , Michael Wolff's sardonic tell-all about his failed attempt to become an Internet multimillionaire, the author pauses to ask himself a set of questions I had been wanting him to address for 150 pages:

  • The film opens with DeVito delivering a sardonic ode to L.A. that captures both the gleaming surface and the underlying rancidity.

  • Dung has a whole new meaning in the context of the sardonic primitivism, the parodic putti-cum-naked-models, the way the entire picture functions both as an homage to and an ironic commentary on the Western cult of the Madonna and its role in African culture.

  • It is a sardonic wit, a wit that can be as savage and biting as the dry northern winds that sear this land for a goodly part of the year.


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