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.
• The hunters are exacting their poetic justice, and their methods of pain skirt the line of overkill.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 19 Feb. 2020
• Whether or not Sussmann beats the rap, though, there is some poetic justice here.
  — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 21 May 2022
• Using the same order against the pro-Trump mob would seem like poetic justice.
  — Star Tribune, 14 Jan. 2021
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Yet in an odd bit of poetic justice, their names get forgotten instead.
  — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 1 Feb. 2022
• If there’s poetic justice, there’ll be a playoff next Sunday.
  — Dom Amore, courant.com, 19 June 2021
• 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
• 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 a certain poetic justice in such a reparation.
  — Arkansas Online, 24 June 2021
• 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
• Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman, or to a lesser degree, 1917, smacks of poetic justice.
  — Anne Cohen, refinery29.com, 9 Feb. 2020
• There’s also some poetic justice in his casting — Monte really is a tramp.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, azcentral, 20 Aug. 2019
• 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
• 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
• 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 a certain amount of poetic justice in the fact that leading Bitcoin companies trying to upgrade the Bitcoin network were foiled by a populist backlash.
  — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 9 Nov. 2017
• 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 was a certain poetic justice to Sam Cooper scoring the last basket of Grayslake Central’s storybook season.
  — Steve Reaven, Chicago Tribune, 6 Mar. 2023
• 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
• There is a certain poetic justice, then, to Black Widow being the movie to pull this balance off, in part because its titular superhero has received some of the worst treatment by Marvel over the years.
  — Jeva Lange, The Week, 7 July 2021
• 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
• 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
• If there is no poetic justice, there is a terrible poetic aptness.
  — Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 4 July 2022
• 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
• And, because unfettered free trade, if only by expanding the size of the global economy, helped get us into this mess, perhaps there’s some poetic justice if restricting that trade can help with the solution.
  — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 21 July 2021

Last Updated: 9 Aug 2024