How to Use irony in a Sentence

irony

noun

• He has a strong sense of irony.
• That's just one of life's little ironies.
• It was a tragic irony that he made himself sick by worrying so much about his health.
• The irony of the situation was apparent to everyone.
• Which is the irony that cuts straight to the heart of the matter.
  — Oliver Darcy, CNN, 5 Jan. 2023
• There was a certain amount of irony in the air as well.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 14 Oct. 2020
• Your bias has to be pretty thick not to see the irony of that.
  — Cenk Uygur, Twin Cities, 31 Aug. 2019
• The irony that it's shaped like an igloo isn't lost on me.
  — Katie Jackson, Travel + Leisure, 21 Mar. 2021
• And then there’s the ironies built into the pitching staff.
  — The Enquirer, 6 Jan. 2024
• The irony is that tariffs will hurt the red states more than blue states.
  — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 22 Mar. 2018
• The irony, though, is that the ship runs on diesel fuel.
  — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 17 Dec. 2019
• When irony spreads to the hoi polloi, no good can come of it.
  — Joe Queenan, WSJ, 26 Oct. 2017
• The irony is this has been a bumper-crop year for tomatoes.
  — Bob Carlton | [e-mail], al, 4 Aug. 2020
• Back to that bit of irony, many of the merch baseball caps are just that.
  — Kristen Bateman, ELLE, 17 Nov. 2022
• But the choice of Cleveland was tinged with irony as well.
  — Alexander Sammon, The New Republic, 14 Aug. 2019
• The irony was that running was the easier part of his life.
  — Marc Bona, cleveland, 6 Dec. 2021
• The irony is how painfully out of reach that trophy has been.
  — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 19 Jan. 2020
• The irony is that many of us lose sleep over trying to sleep better.
  — Mike Richard, Men's Health, 19 Jan. 2023
• And the whole irony of just in time was that it was built to be more efficient.
  — ABC News, 21 Nov. 2021
• The slight irony in the way his fingers hold a cigarette.
  — Jonas Eika, The New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2021
• The irony is this: none of these matters, at least not to the bottom line.
  — Howard Yu, Forbes, 22 Sep. 2021
• And then, there was also a lot of humor and camp irony.
  — Joshua Rothkopf, EW.com, 30 June 2022
• And why not; there’s poignancy and irony built into the idea.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2022
• Of course, for Mitchell, the moment was tinged with irony.
  — Steve Hartman, CBS News, 17 Dec. 2021
• The irony is that Jack will now be used to catch more drug dealers and users.
  — Community Report, Houston Chronicle, 6 Feb. 2018
• Sarcasm has no place, and even irony should be used with care.
  — Susan Neiman, The New York Review of Books, 6 Apr. 2023
• And that’s what irony is built on, that’s what all of these things are built on.
  — Eric Johnson, Recode, 8 Oct. 2018
• The irony is that eggs have a yoke, and Musk may have a little on his face.
  — Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 6 Jan. 2023
• And that in turn makes our jobs harder as parents — that’s the irony.
  — Washington Post, 12 Apr. 2021
• The irony of a mix-up like this wasn’t lost on Ms. Lee.
  — New York Times, 6 June 2021

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024