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
• The irony of a mix-up like this wasn’t lost on Ms. Lee.
  — New York Times, 6 June 2021
• That's the irony of this, is the kid did nothing wrong.
  — Richard Schlesinger, CBS News, 3 Aug. 2024
• The irony that it's shaped like an igloo isn't lost on me.
  — Katie Jackson, Travel + Leisure, 21 Mar. 2021
• The irony, though, is that the ship runs on diesel fuel.
  — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 17 Dec. 2019
• But there is a huge irony that lies at the heart of the ARC-170’s story.
  — Zarnon Kalgon, Popular Mechanics, 4 May 2023
• The irony is that my fave part of the whole song is the very end… like the last 30 seconds.
  — Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 1 Sep. 2023
• And then there’s the ironies built into the pitching staff.
  — The Enquirer, 6 Jan. 2024
• Of course, for Mitchell, the moment was tinged with irony.
  — Steve Hartman, CBS News, 17 Dec. 2021
• There was a certain amount of irony in the air as well.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 14 Oct. 2020
• But the choice of Cleveland was tinged with irony as well.
  — Alexander Sammon, The New Republic, 14 Aug. 2019
• When irony spreads to the hoi polloi, no good can come of it.
  — Joe Queenan, WSJ, 26 Oct. 2017
• Your bias has to be pretty thick not to see the irony of that.
  — Cenk Uygur, Twin Cities, 31 Aug. 2019
• 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
• The irony is that tariffs will hurt the red states more than blue states.
  — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 22 Mar. 2018
• The irony of Hight’s words would shortly come back to haunt him.
  — Andrew Johnston, Chicago Tribune, 26 Sep. 2024
• The irony is if the Falcons hadn’t picked him here, Carter would have gone at No. 9 – to the Bears.
  — Mark Inabinett | [e-mail], al, 26 Mar. 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 this: none of these matters, at least not to the bottom line.
  — Howard Yu, Forbes, 22 Sep. 2021
• 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
• The irony of the title: None of the characters have any true friends.
  — James Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 22 June 2023
• The irony is the singer in our band now, Joseph Williams, his father is John Williams.
  — Max Evry, Pitchfork, 13 Oct. 2023
• And why not; there’s poignancy and irony built into the idea.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2022
• Raised Catholic in the world’s most populous Black nation, I was struck by the irony that this was my first time in a church with Black saints.
  — Essence, 10 Oct. 2024
• And the irony is, of course, that the conflict is starting to rage outside is actually already raging within the conclave.
  — Damon Wise, Deadline, 22 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Nov 2024