Sentence examples for were ironic from inspiring English sources

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were ironic

adjective

Characterized by or constituting (any kind of) irony.

  • It was ironic I forgot my textbook on human memory.

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"The Pop artists in New York were ironic about it," Mr. Foster said.

There were ironic cheers as Gambhir successfully blocked his first ball from Jimmy Anderson.

"If we were ironic, we'd do a polka album," said Mr. Macklovitch, defending the band's sincerity.

These were predictable lines, but this time around they were ironic as well.

There were ironic, unforgiving cheers towards the end whenever Hart gathered the ball without making a mistake.

These attacks were ironic inasmuch as the McCain tax proposal had actually been put forward by economists advising the Obama campaign.

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This is ironic.

That's ironic.

"So it's ironic.

The title was ironic.

Which is ironic.

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