Sentence examples for amusing irony from inspiring English sources

It's an amusing irony that his memorial feels so exclusive.

In an amusing irony, he loved expensive shoes.

Given the dietary advances that Wenger introduced to English football, there was an amusing irony to the fact that Arsenal were being hosted by a team whose preparations had involved going on the lash in London.

This illustrates an amusing irony – while many proponents of Brexit have long argued that one of the benefits would be less "red tape", especially employment regulation, the referendum campaign showed that there was almost no appetite for such an agenda among the British people.

There's an amusing irony in the fact that the "Crackberry" was the original distracting smartphone: the phone that turned your friends and dining partners into obnoxious assholes and made every strolling businessperson a collision hazzard.

The most amusing irony appears when some hapless Republican cracks an Obama TelePrompTer joke while themselves reading from the device which they are mocking.

That was the funniest thing of all, funnier than the amusing ironies of the man's profession, than his furtive drinking and his wordless, solitary suppers, funnier even than his having been widowed by suicide: the joke of a father's outliving his boy.

STYLE: Witty, amusing, savors historical irony and good conversation.

There was an amusing, if unintended, irony in Kirchner's remarks, because the hotel where she and her entourage were staying was rumored to have been built for the express purpose of laundering money.

In an amusing twist of irony, 7 out of 8 videos are currently set to 'Private' and cannot be viewed yet.

In the course of his devotedly researched footnotes, Hearn sometimes nods into critical banality: "Much of the charm and wit of The Wizard of Oz relies on Baum's irony and amusing incongruity"; the Cowardly Lion "proves Ernest Hemingway's dictum that courage is grace under pressure".