How to Use poetic justice in a Sentence

poetic justice

noun

• After the way he treated his staff, it was poetic justice that he lost his job.
• Whether or not Sussmann beats the rap, though, there is some poetic justice here.
  — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 21 May 2022
• The hunters are exacting their poetic justice, and their methods of pain skirt the line of overkill.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 19 Feb. 2020
• Yet in an odd bit of poetic justice, their names get forgotten instead.
  — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 1 Feb. 2022
• Using the same order against the pro-Trump mob would seem like poetic justice.
  — Star Tribune, 14 Jan. 2021
• Oddly enough, in an act of poetic justice, the victors in the Prop 8 fight have fared worst.
  — Omar G. Encarnación, Foreign Affairs, 31 May 2015
• If there’s poetic justice, there’ll be a playoff next Sunday.
  — Dom Amore, courant.com, 19 June 2021
• The movie’s implacable sense of poetic justice is only equaled by its graphic smarts.
  — J. Hoberman, The New York Review of Books, 13 May 2020
• There’s also some poetic justice in his casting — Monte really is a tramp.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, azcentral, 20 Aug. 2019
• If there is no poetic justice, there is a terrible poetic aptness.
  — Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 4 July 2022
• And by a great stroke of poetic justice, the new governor will be a woman, New York’s first ever.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 10 Aug. 2021
• Cage’s detractors find poetic justice in the fact that much of his recent work has gone straight to video on demand, with no theatrical release.
  — Dan Piepenbring, Harper’s Magazine , 18 Jan. 2022
• There is some form of poetic justice in the land being earmarked for children’s enjoyment, but neither woman voices it.
  — Alex Morris, Rolling Stone, 4 Jan. 2024
• In this, the legions of fans who disagreed with the decision to part ways with Hinkie understandably see a form of poetic justice.
  — David Murphy, Philly.com, 8 June 2018
• So, in some ways, giving Black people the land where the prison once operated as reparations could be seen as poetic justice.
  — Erika D. Smith, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2023
• Meeting in the playoff for a second consecutive year is almost poetic justice with how the last 12 months have gone.
  — Stephen Means, cleveland, 28 Dec. 2020
• Emily Dickinson is looking for poetic justice… or maybe just healing.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 13 Oct. 2021
• The return of the acres of ancestral lands is poetic justice to the Shasta Indians.
  — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 1 July 2024
• Finishing her second Olympics — and perhaps her career — on balance beam is poetic justice of sorts for Biles.
  — Will Graves, courant.com, 3 Aug. 2021
• We are used to contemplating the ways that an artist’s life inflects the work; there is poetic justice to the fact that, here, Roth’s work snared his biographer.
  — Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 23 Apr. 2021
• There’s a touch of poetic justice in the fact that a play about a man who refuses to believe his wife has so many female technicians commanding authority.
  — Sonia Weiser, New York Times, 6 June 2018
• Johnson is still the pollsters’ favorite—but there would be some poetic justice to the Conservative leader being ousted in this way.
  — Natasha Frost, Quartz, 12 Dec. 2019
• There’s some poetic justice in the fact that America’s biggest bank became such a benefactor in Detroit.
  — Matthew Heimer, Fortune, 27 Sep. 2023
• There’s poetic justice, as Reed puts it, replacing the name of a slaveowner and insurrectionist with a civil rights hero.
  — al, 12 Jan. 2022
• There is a certain poetic justice when a building designed to incarcerate people is turned into venue for liberation.
  — Inga Saffron, Philly.com, 12 Apr. 2018
• And delivering a devastating, heart-breaking performance as a woman who made a career out of comebacks is the best kind of poetic justice.
  — Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2019
• For Manchester City’s detractors, the club’s defeat came with plenty of poetic justice.
  — Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 29 May 2021
• The Christian Bible receiving similar treatment is a kind of poetic justice.
  — Issac Bailey, CNN, 24 Aug. 2022
• So as the Cougars prepare to face Gonzaga on the road Thursday, there’s a desire for some poetic justice in Knell’s eyes.
  — Alex Vejar, The Salt Lake Tribune, 13 Jan. 2022
• And really, who could be immune to the poetic justice of Ginsburg’s replacement being named by the first female president?
  — Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2020