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.
• And memes, these post-ironic memes just aren't the same.
  — Michelle Santiago Cortés, refinery29.com, 9 July 2021
• But the winter cheer constantly proves an ironic counterpoint to all the darkness.
  — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 17 Nov. 2024
• There is the author’s trademark ironic distance and careful wit, as well as tinges of surrealism.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 19 June 2021
• Very quickly the ironic, misanthropic tone is established, as is the chemistry among the cast.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 12 Nov. 2024
• But in a somewhat ironic twist, two of the show’s lead actors have since spoken out about poor representation and conduct behind the scenes.
  — Washington Post, 7 June 2021
• Chin-Hong says this unequal spread is ironic, considering the backdrop of the Olympic Games.
  — Maddie Bender, Scientific American, 13 July 2021
• Yet the ironic and playful branding is also reflective of fashion right now, and Château Voltaire’s capsule gets the hip du jour vibe right, too.
  — Mark Holgate, Vogue, 17 Oct. 2024
• The title is ironic: the characters refuse to arrange themselves into a simplistic array of heroes and villains.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 19 July 2021
• Eventually, Stewart managed to rebuild herself as a sort of ironic celebrity.
  — Constance Grady, Vox, 4 Nov. 2024
• For Palestinians from the town of Beita, exclamations of victory were ironic.
  — Andrew Carey and Abeer Salman, CNN, 17 July 2021
• 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
• 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
• What’s ironic is my son just left last night to fly to North Carolina.
  — Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 13 Feb. 2024
• 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
• 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 setting of the brutal attack in western New York was ironic.
  — Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2022

Last Updated: 10 Dec 2024