Sentence examples for ironic quips from inspiring English sources

Even the artists who'd lost work were forced to come out with detached, ironic quips when it was patent that what they'd experienced was a devastating tragedy.

More than that, Mr. Brooks's column serves as a sort of elegy to public service well done in an age when ironic quips too often steal the headlines.

He began as a graffiti artist under the SAMO pseudonym, making critical and ironic quips with semi-coherent jabs such as "SAMO©… 4 THE SO-CALLED AVANT-GARDE". It wasn't long before Basquiat turned to painting, keeping his knack for re-appropriation, rhythm and aggression firmly intact.

I am not sure if it is a real laugh you needed or was that an ironic quip?

Every ironic quip would ordinarily have had them rolling in the aisles.

Surkov himself, ever ironic and self-possessed, has quipped that he is "too odious for this brave new world".

Bragg's successful adoption of Rodgers's famous yodel – "I'm the only Englishman to do a non-ironic yodel since Morrissey," he quips – brings a rapturous audience response.

In other news, yet so frightfully ironic, Tory politician Henry Smith tweeted earlier this morning quipping that he was struggling with the hot air in the Commons.

It's a somewhat ironic turn, given that when he was first launching Quip, Taylor mocked legacy word processing programs, noting that "It's comical how similar [MacWrite] looks like what we use today" and how most desktop programs don't address how consumers are turning away from legacy computing devices.

It's a somewhat ironic turn, given that when he was first launching Quip, Taylor mocked legacy word processing programs, noting that "It's comical how similar [MacWrite] looks like what we use today" and how most desktop programs don't address how consumers are turning away from legacy computing devices.

That is ironic, for gas was once seen as so worthless that wags quipped: "Find gas once and you're forgiven; find it twice and you're fired".