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"Irony" in a Sentence (23 examples)
Tone of voice can indicate anger and irony.
There was a touch of irony in his speech.
She will perceive his irony.
"Literally" can literally mean "metaphorically". "Literal" meaning "metaphorical" is also a literal irony.
Other than that, you should know that I allow myself a bit of irony from time to time.
French poet, Alcanter de Brahm, proposed the irony mark (؟) towards the end of the 19th century to indicate a sentence which should be understood as ironic or sarcastic.
You're the only one who didn't understand the irony of what I said.
There's a sense of bitter irony.
Irony is very present in the English tradition.
Tom didn't get the irony.
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Irony, saying what it ne'er intends, Censures with praise, and speaks to foes as friends.
A principal virtue of Rorty's recognition of both the lightminded and the serious side of irony is to urge us in that direction.
It is one of the ironies of capital cities that each acts as a symbol of its nation, and yet few are even remotely representative of it. London has always set itself apart from the rest of Britain — but political, economic and social trends are conspiring to drive that wedge deeper.
The second irony is that the only American who intuitively or otherwise grasps this reality and possesses a large enough ego potentially capable of governing in these circumstances is the president.
The food had an irony taste to it.
The scrap yard had bins marked for irony aluminum, such as aluminum engine blocks not wholly cleaned of bolts, studs, brackets, and so on.
Thus in Cornwall, and many parts of Germany and France, in mineral districts, an irony appearance of a vein, where seen at the crop, is regarded as favourable.
E. W. Baker, Main St. - No odor, good appearance, slight irony taste; pressure weak. But water which had stood in wash pitcher some three or four days showed pronounced odor.
There can be no doubt that persistent biking robs the female limb of its graceful contour and substitutes therefore the rugged protrusive muscles, the ungainly and irony look of the masculine leg.
It [overgrazing] eventually causes a particularly hard irony surface to the soil which is perfectly unmistakable once you have seen it , and also certain weeds which are also unmistakable once you have seen them.
Raspberries raw, stewing, jamming, pulping, take over my house during July, overlaying the richer, more irony smell of the blackcurrant – a contralto to a soprano.
There was nothing left, besides just the pile of files on my desk, and the irony look on Catherine's face.
And before the season's over millions of "glassies" and "aggies" or "ironies" will change hands, and thousands more will manage to get themselves lost.
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