How to Use ironic in a Sentence

ironic

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  • 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
  • The very end of Virgo season is when the fall equinox hits—and isn’t it ironic?
    — Bianca London, Glamour, 22 Sep. 2023
  • 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
  • What’s ironic, though, is that in Europe they’re prized for their pure white, mild flesh.
    — Joe Cermele, Field & Stream, 26 July 2023
  • What’s ironic is my son just left last night to fly to North Carolina.
    — Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 13 Feb. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • What’s ironic is our men’s team has embraced the tactics the women need to follow.
    — Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2023
  • And isn't that ironic for a league that emphasizes the control of any variable known to humankind?
    — Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY, 4 Nov. 2022
  • Be sure to share your thoughts in the comments section of our – yes, this is ironic – social media pages as well.
    — Jennifer Jolly, USA TODAY, 30 Mar. 2023
  • The fact that Murati’s role at OpenAI puts her at the forefront of this cutting-edge future is a bit ironic.
    — Joseph Abrams, Fortune, 6 Oct. 2023
  • East Germans tend to be more ironic and subtler in their humor.
    — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Mar. 2024
  • The fact that this is happening to Hertz of all companies is ironic, as the rental agency is not just any customer of Musk.
    — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2023
  • If all of the fame, ironic or not, keeps the more harmful aspects of Smock’s message not just alive, but thriving — who is the joke really on?
    — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 6 July 2023
  • Its destination is perhaps the most ironic: the parking garage that Greene still owns.
    — Michael Granberry, Dallas News, 23 June 2023
  • His intent can be good or bad, but is always vaguely ironic.
    — John Anderson, WSJ, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Some Twitter users did find that comment funny, or at least ironic.
    — Peter Weber, The Week, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Although Roth preserved the author’s anonymity, many of the literati of the late Weimar era would have known who wrote this wryly ironic tale of a young man fumbling his way through the war years.
    — Johannes Von Moltke, The New York Review of Books, 2 Nov. 2023
  • All of this is ironic because Apple does little in the way of innovation these days.
    — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune Crypto, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Perhaps the most ironic part of the siege is that Prigozhin was once one of Putin's closest advisors, and a staunch ally up until the rebellion.
    — Justin Klawans, The Week, 27 June 2023
  • If whether, in the pell-mell rush to embrace the color — to reclaim it as a triumph of ironic feminism — the Barbie hype has sowed the seeds of pink’s destruction.
    — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 24 July 2023
  • For example, regulators are now part of the story — an ironic shift for anyone who was around in the dot com days.
    — Anil Dash, Rolling Stone, 30 Dec. 2023
  • And thus begins a cautious alliance between the broken pair who, in an ironic and poignant twist, may not be able to heal without the other.
    — Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times, 23 Mar. 2023
  • The still image itself is ironic: Conte’s Chelsea had just played a very regular game of soccer.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 11 Aug. 2023

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