How to Use ironically in a Sentence

ironically

adverb

• In the process, the crown ironically passed to a rival from south of the border.
  — Bychristiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 14 June 2023
• The best way to deal with this, ironically, is to own it.
  — Mitch Duckler, Fortune, 23 May 2024
• But ironically, the one person who didn’t want to go to the strip club was Adam.
  — Anna Tingley, Variety, 12 May 2023
• One friend points to the problem by sending me a link to, ironically, a tweet.
  — WIRED, 5 Dec. 2022
• Now the guy is gone, and ironically, the company has not missed him at all.
  — Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Nov. 2023
• Not that ironically, the former was Asian and the latter white.
  — Weike Wang, The New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2022
• And ironically, horror films have played best when the world is in some kind of turmoil.
  — Vulture, 20 Jan. 2023
• Culkin says hideous things to everyone, but ironically seems the most redeemable and wisest of the Roy kids.
  — Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 22 Mar. 2023
• All the Pac-12’s playoff eggs are now in the basket of Southern California, ironically one of the schools with a foot out the door.
  — Eddie Timanus, USA TODAY, 14 Nov. 2022
• Lighten up your night-out look this ruched off the shoulder style from Moré Noire, which ironically comes in white.
  — Madeline Fass, Vogue, 2 Dec. 2022
• And although the shop is next door to The Ministry of Justice, ironically, no police were on hand in the area during the robbery.
  — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 3 May 2023
• Josh Gasser, who ironically was in my office last night, did that.
  — Jeff Potrykus, Journal Sentinel, 27 Jan. 2023
• Michael may be too late — ironically, Francesca is engaged to his cousin.
  — Kayla Keegan, Good Housekeeping, 16 Mar. 2022
• The best defensive play, ironically, came against the run.
  — Nate Atkins, The Indianapolis Star, 17 Oct. 2022
• And, ironically for a show about rebellion, that happened in large part because of the bad guys.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 22 Dec. 2022
• That’s all a far cry from the good times, which began, ironically, when the pandemic hit in early 2020.
  — Andy Hoffman, Fortune Europe, 8 Dec. 2023
• The result is a movie that, ironically, might have functioned better as a TV show.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 28 Sep. 2021
• But what pulled her out of a months-long creative slump was, ironically, the apocalypse.
  — Soleil Ho, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Apr. 2022
• And ironically, the video was of a podcast conducted by JJ Redick.
  — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2024
• As for Council, he was ironically later caught by the FBI.
  — Michael Kan, PCMAG, 18 Oct. 2024
• There’s been a lot of buzz around the idea of genderless fashion over the last couple of seasons, much of it coming, ironically, from the menswear space.
  — José Criales-Unzueta, Vogue, 15 June 2022
• And now, the love is gone again, hung out to dry and then traded away to the Cavs, ironically enough by that same person who played a major role in stealing love from the Jazz the first time.
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 1 Sep. 2022
• So ironically, the secret to a better medicine cabinet is to simply clear out the medicines.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 27 Apr. 2022
• In an age when health is wealth, hotel spas have, ironically, become old hat.
  — Jillian Dara, Robb Report, 25 May 2023
• But ironically enough, the team’s best game happened when Chase Young wasn’t even at Ohio Stadium.
  — Stephen Means, cleveland, 23 Sep. 2021
• Tokyo, a spooky game that came out last March as, ironically, a console exclusive on PS5.
  — Jay Peters, The Verge, 25 Jan. 2023
• Employees, ironically, took to Twitter to say their goodbyes as the world watched on.
  — Quartz, 9 Nov. 2022
• By mid-May—the day the VF8 reviews all went live, ironically—Vinfast decided to issue a recall to fix the problem.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 25 May 2023
• Two things that seem to be in opposition are, ironically, both true: Meals cost too much money, and restaurants should be charging more.
  — Matthew Odam, Austin American-Statesman, 21 Nov. 2024
• Somewhat ironically, the U.S. now says only about four months of the year should be standard time — from early November until early March.
  — Jeanine Santucci, USA TODAY, 31 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 23 Dec 2024