How to Use ironic in a Sentence

ironic

adjective

• She has an ironic sense of humor.
• It is ironic that the robber's car crashed into a police station.
• It's ironic that computers break down so often, since they're meant to save people time.
• The title of the show is, to be sure, more ironic than not.
  — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 24 July 2023
• And memes, these post-ironic memes just aren't the same.
  — Michelle Santiago Cortés, refinery29.com, 9 July 2021
• The very end of Virgo season is when the fall equinox hits—and isn’t it ironic?
  — Bianca London, Glamour, 22 Sep. 2023
• Somehow both brothers end up at the test and, in an ironic twist, Tomás gets the job.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Dec. 2024
• Which is ironic because this thing is no joke to cart around.
  — Michael Schneider, Variety, 30 Nov. 2022
• How ironic, then, that the law is causing new rays of truth to burst forth—in Europe.
  — wsj.com, 20 Apr. 2023
• In a follow-up post, Banks said Jacky’s death was ironic.
  — Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2023
• But how ironic that the free market turns out to be anything but free.
  — Dave Lieber, Dallas News, 26 Feb. 2021
• Bryce’s father calls his son’s death at that beach ironic in that sense.
  — USA TODAY, 12 Apr. 2024
• What’s ironic, though, is that in Europe they’re prized for their pure white, mild flesh.
  — Joe Cermele, Field & Stream, 26 July 2023
• The song, as it’s used here, lays on the ironic jauntiness with a trowel.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 15 Jan. 2025
• Trump learned of his failure in a manner that could not have been more ironic.
  — James Hibberd, EW.com, 7 Nov. 2020
• What’s ironic is my son just left last night to fly to North Carolina.
  — Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 13 Feb. 2024
• Though in his ironic version, the umbrella is the source of a downpour.
  — Doug MacCash, NOLA.com, 28 Dec. 2020
• After this week, Fisher always will be, though, and that’s the most ironic thing of all.
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 20 May 2022
• The fact that the bulk of their clients were state lodges of the Fraternal Order of Police was simply ironic.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 13 Aug. 2023
• Which is ironic because in a sense, that’s the most important thing.
  — Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 16 July 2024
• And then came the most bitter and ironic failure for Staley and his defense.
  — Jeff Miller, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2023
• Ant-Man is a somewhat ironic choice for a very, very big job: Kicking off the next phase of Marvel movies.
  — Brian Lowry, CNN, 14 Feb. 2023
• Trelawny, the younger son, is bookish and ironic, and the most frequent narrator.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2022
• What’s ironic is our men’s team has embraced the tactics the women need to follow.
  — Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2023
• To colleagues in the field, the circumstances of Ms. Bilek’s departure struck a note that was both ironic and painful.
  — New York Times, 26 Mar. 2021
• An ironic twist to this friendly back and forth — was that Harris and Paul were brothers.
  — Steve Wiser, The Courier-Journal, 20 Apr. 2024
• The blurred line between what's ironic and what's sincere is a feature of the new far-right that was born on the internet in the Trump era.
  — CNN, 25 Nov. 2020
• The setting of the brutal attack in western New York was ironic.
  — Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2022
• Watching this ironic Islamic tale is like seeing our ’60s youth revolution played back as a bizarre Arabian Nights fable.
  — Armond White, National Review, 22 Jan. 2025
• On paper, Bridget can be compellingly hard to pin down, inconstant and ironic, messily self-aware, undeniably human.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 7 Feb. 2025

Last Updated: 26 Feb 2025