Sentence examples for did ironically from inspiring English sources

The phrase "did ironically" is not standard in written English and may cause confusion.
It could be used in contexts where you want to emphasize that an action was performed in an ironic manner, but it is better to rephrase for clarity. Example: "He said he loved the movie, but he did ironically, knowing it was terrible."

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As did, ironically, my discovery several years later that "Newsies" had been a box-office flop and a critical failure when it was released, in 1992.

It is funny, most of these same Republicans had no problem with the status quo when it came to health care over the years, but now they are embracing it as if they voted for it (none of them did, ironically).

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Even though we think we're getting a lot done, ironically, multitasking makes us demonstrably less efficient.

What Cumming hasn't been able to do, ironically, is solve the riddle of where the painting is today.

And a train approaching Chennai in the south mysteriously caught fire, probably because of a glitch to do, ironically, with electricity, killing at least 32 people.

But what Hytner wanted to do, ironically enough, was the one thing that stubbornly refused to happen: make a career in the movies.

So in between the sex, drugs and rock'n'roll he interviewed Sir Keith Joseph, MC'd game shows, and did regional news slots about elephants (and in so doing, ironically resembled no one so much as the late Bill Grundy).

Even modern feminism – with all its CAPITAL LETTERS, being totally prescriptive about how hairy your bush can be and what you can and can't do ironically – is just totes dullssville when you're really hot.

Japanese visitors pay their respects at Pearl Harbor just as Americans do; ironically, the state's economic vitality today depends largely on tourism from Japan.

What to do?  Ironically, for the sake of saving one's face and gaining "moral" or "ethical" legitimacy in the eyes of their peers and superiors, these cadets must lie.

I was shouting at him to stop, that I didn't want to do it, but he overpowered me, holding my arms by my sides and forcing the backs of my thighs down with his knees something I used to love him doing, ironically.

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