Example sentences for: sardonically

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

  • (I hadn't grasped how square and stolid the framing was until last night, when, while filming a concert by the pathetic dregs of a real '70s band, the camera tilted sardonically, just for an instant.)

  • After Messinger gave a major address a few weeks back, the Daily News sardonically endorsed her as the "Mayor of Mars," observing with a characteristically light touch that her speech had furnished evidence of life on "the Red Planet."

  • The appalled Apollo makes an operatic gesture of horror over his muscular lover, while a satyr and a parrot (symbols of forbidden lust) stare sardonically down at the proceedings.

  • In a BBC interview in the 1950s, Hoyle sardonically referred to the hypothesized origin as "the big bang."

  • And so the news media, Gould marveled sardonically, "manage to explain it all."


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