IRONIC in a Sentence
Learn IRONIC from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
268 example sentences for IRONIC, such as:
1. The bed has an iron frame.
2. It's hard to bend an iron bar.
3. Strike the iron while it is hot.
4. Life sometimes, always is ironic.
5. That is a summary and ironic end.
2. It's hard to bend an iron bar.
3. Strike the iron while it is hot.
4. Life sometimes, always is ironic.
5. That is a summary and ironic end.
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Meanings and Examples of IRONIC
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ironic
a. humorously sarcastic or mocking
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 Prince Andrew looked silently at Pierre with an ironic smile.
2 Napoleon turned to him with a pleasant, though slightly ironic, smile.
3 "He writes about this war," said the prince, with the ironic smile that had become habitual to him in speaking of the present war.
4 "Always busy," replied Michael Ivanovich with a respectfully ironic smile which caused Princess Mary to turn pale.
5 Napoleon made ironic remarks during Fabvier's account, as if he had not expected that matters could go otherwise in his absence.
6 While the soldiers were shouting Kutuzov leaned forward in his saddle and bowed his head, and his eye lit up with a mild and apparently ironic gleam.
7 They hailed Ethan with ironic compliment and offers of conviviality; but no one knew where to find the glue.
8 For years she had thought that nothing mattered very much to him, that he thought everything in life, including her, an ironic joke.
9 She continued to confront him with the same air of ironic composure.
10 There were moments when Lily found an ironic amusement in this aspect of the case.
11 The hunt was long, animated, and thorough, but unsuccessful; and, with grave, ironic exultation, Cassy looked down on Legree, as, weary and dispirited, he alighted from his horse.
12 Perhaps it was an impulse of unconscious loyalty, or the fulfillment of one of these ironic necessities that lurk in the facts of human existence.
13 In a sky of iron the points of the Dipper hung like icicles and Orion flashed his cold fires.
14 The iron heavens seemed to melt and rain down sweetness.
15 The thousands of immigrants who'd be glad to fight for the Yankees for food and a few dollars, the factories, the foundries, the shipyards, the iron and coal mines--all the things we haven't got.
Example Sentence: (58 in 4 pages)
1 People used to call me Mr Popularity at high school, but they were being ironic.
2 That is a summary and ironic end.
3 The film is more of an ironic fantasy than a horror story.
4 Life sometimes, always is ironic.
5 When the award was announced there was plenty of ironic and some critical coverage from sections of the British press.
6 What's truly ironic is how both sides in this polarized debate use precisely the same tactics.
7 It's hard to bend an iron bar.
8 He smashed the window with an iron bar.
9 The bed has an iron frame.
10 The iron was too hot and he scorched the shirt.
11 You can do more than strike while the iron is hot; you can make the iron hot by striking.
12 Strike the iron while it is hot.
13 The worker hammered the iron flat.
14 The yard had been enclosed with iron railings.
15 The school has iron gates between the yard and the road.