Sentence examples for became ironic from inspiring English sources

A few moments later she became ironic and added, "Welcome to the mean streets of Danvers, those hardscrabble streets".

The focus on diversity became ironic as the night wore on, with one white person after another delivering acceptance speeches.

That statement became ironic when when a new version of its new operating system leaked by accident.

Early this month, Microsoft declared that "government snooping potentially now constitutes an 'advanced persistent threat,'" a statement that became ironic this weekend, given that, early this month, Microsoft likened government surveillance to "sophisticated malware and cyber attacks".

It was an offensive display so remarkably opposite from their output over the weekend in Minneapolis it became ironic.

What became ironic about his efforts was that although the author and his subject were both in China, Franz's search for documentation evidently ended up being most fruitful in Taiwan, Hong Kong and France, where Deng had spent six years in the early '20s working and organizing, and, incidentally, cultivating an abiding taste for croissants.

But when shock ends, play begins, and taboos, whether sexual, political or formal, whether old or new, become ironic conventions.

If one remembers the campos' original dedication to agriculture, present-day dependency on the mainland for the import of produce and processing of waste becomes ironic.

In fact, the media's reduction of women to individual detached body parts is so widespread that their own attempts to satirise it have become ironic in themselves.

It's no coincidence that this is all happening in Los Angeles, where comics move to work in TV and movies and stay to become ironic, insular and defeated about it.

But more recently, funereal attire has become ironic, as demonstrated by present-day Goths, and longer ago by Karl Lagerfeld's 1977 post-Chloé show party, where 4,000 guests obeyed the dress code: "tragic black dress absolutely obligatory".