Use "irony" in a sentence

1. Climbing the Acropolis and visiting The Parthenon has been an ambition ever since I was at school and now the irony; that with the opportunity so close, I'm too tired

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2. The irony of it is that this excitement is, by and large, non-existent

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3. “Oh,” Tom said, with faint irony, “Glad to hear that you’ve been

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4. wasn’t the slightest hint of irony or even disapproval in

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5. ’ There was a touch of irony to her words, but

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6. ’ The irony was that they

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7. Jean, smiling at the irony

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8. smiled at the irony, recalling his experience at the Pass of

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9. the reader to apprehend the irony

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10. Yet this prophet did not consider the irony of his youth About to contemplate the immaturity of his elders: 4t: The Zen Ship Splits into Reality

11. Conviction or proof? Irony of the repressed actuality of the

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12. There was an irony here, as Monk-Key 1 saw Itself as more humane and self-conscious then the humans It viewed in the mass media—and was very curious about The lives it would intervene with in the future

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13. “Did you hear any flaws?” he asked, without a speck of irony

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14. A career thief’s detachment may have spared him of any associated guilt, but the irony certainly was not lost on him as he rented and relaxed in a room in an inn that his Guild had very recently struck

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15. The irony had not been lost on DRAFT

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16. And that’s what makes the irony infinitely sweeter

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17. Thinking of what he had been up to less than a week before, Sebastian chuckled at the irony

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18. One more thing, as I was talking away just now, I realized that the irony is what you have done may be a blessing in disguise for Atlantica,” she said to Kurt

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19. We always seem to need him, don"t we?” The irony in this young man"s voice astounded me

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20. irony for this - a lecture on morality from a

21. He couldn’t help but smile at the irony, though, that he, an anti-Phoenix protestor, had ended up in Salverford

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22. The irony was apparent

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23. ‘I don't question the wisdom of Central Council,’ she said with loosely concealed irony

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24. ” They all laughed at their brush with death and the final irony of giving away all the power

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25. Such (thoughtless) attitudes are (especially) apparent among certain segments of our Youth who have grown indifferent, if not impervious, altogether, to nuance, irony and wit or subtle designs or delicate shadings that (otherwise) require a receptive imagination rather than taking ―everything‖ at their face value, (as many of them seem to do); conditioned as their minds often are by the requirements of material ―evidence‖ and visual ―proofs‖; neither able to draw inferences nor reach (meaningful) conclusions from underlying sources, opting, instead, for the path of least (perceptual) resistance

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26. The irony is that American presidents often more strongly opposed slavery at the start of US history, when much of the US public did not yet, and were more likely to be defenders of slavery as the time came close to it being abolished

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27. Nevertheless, it is not without irony that from the smoldering ashes of defeat emerged off-centered platforms that would quickly come to define both party‘s sociopolitical ideologies in the coming years

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28. With more than a little irony, Calley was invited as a guest of the Kiwanis Club of Columbus, Georgia, a charity known for its worldwide endeavors for justice and children's welfare

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29. It is not without irony that I find myself (partially) agreeing in part with an African American sociologist, who recently suggested that Sports have superseded the Plantation

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30. The greater irony was/is the failure of otherwise clear-thinking individuals to recognize that such spending, on a number of levels, was/is oftentimes a break-even proposition with no clear-cut winners however a high number of discernable losers

31. “All that in the thirty days before the end of Winter Break?” he asked, his voice steeped in irony

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32. “I was way up the shaft,” said Nadir, unconscious of the irony

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33. Dave appeared to be amused himself, with the irony of being in the middle of all that

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34. “How was it?” he asked in unconscious irony

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35. “Very good today,” he muttered in irony

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36. I smiled at the irony

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37. It's a funny irony, you want to teach about inclusion but you don't want to at the same time!

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38. His embarrassing near-blunder at last night’s festivities at the announcement of the Last Holy Campaign as it was officially now named, had not gone unnoticed: it had become the subject of sarcastic comments and irony even at the lower echelons of the Ministry and the Army, but had only naturally been ignored by the Procrastinators in whole

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39. Nevertheless, it was over: the war had been consigned to the history books and the dreams of a better Nicaragua, which apparently both he and his cousin had been fighting for, reduced to sad irony

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40. The irony now was that with Amonas missing, and her protector unable to come to her aid she would have to fend for herself

41. I couldn’t be happier: the problem’s solving itself and don’t you love the irony of it? Look at the article on page three where they label me ‘the people’s anti-drug hero’

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42. There is a strange irony in the fact that an avowedly Christian website titled “Christians Together” (an oxymoron?) over a period of months published a number of scathing and sometimes even poisonous comments about the Church of Scotland, mainly by members of other traditions or by discontents who have left the Kirk and want to claim a monopoly of the high moral, spiritual and Biblical ground for themselves

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43. “Yes master,” she said, “have we pleased you?” Her tone was heavy with irony, but not anger

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44. The driver nodded his silent agreement, while Ludwig said with the slightest hint of irony:

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45. Rivulets of rain ran freely down Ethan’s taut face when he said with the slightest hint of irony:

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46. He perceived the irony, but did not comment it

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47. The unfamiliarity of this role reversal was overwhelming in its irony

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48. “Listen, father,” said Ethan with a grin of irony before he added, “I couldn’t care less

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49. Ethan asked with a hint of irony, still clutching the rifle in his hands:

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50. In a twist of irony, these “Lambs of Christ” saved the Colosseum from complete ruin when “Pope Benedict XIV AD 1740–58 stopped (any further) spoliation by consecrating the Colosseum to the Passion of Christ, in commemoration of the martyrs’ blood shed there

51. The irony was that the leadership doing the preaching

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52. Thank god for the comforts of America, but the irony is that our

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53. The irony was that Liam didn’t remotely suspect that this hopeless and crippling illness was just an unresolved natural instinct called codependency

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54. Jason sensed the irony to be acting as a consultant to a college president on behalf of the most important two men in his life while he himself was on a type of probation at his own high school

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55. The shameful irony is: You think your loved one was cremated and you received “all” the “ashes” in the urn, but back at the ranch, or should I say “at the back of the crematorium”, your loved ones bones have been buried already, in a mass grave, with a host of animals

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56. The irony in words of the Lord:

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57. It's Irony is out of the mind,

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58. The irony in all this is that the initial conflict may well remain unresolved if my impatience and anger persist

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59. The name of the pub has a certain irony which has not escaped me; the Ten Bells in Whitechapel has been featured in the newspapers many times during the last few weeks, as it lies at the very center of the Whitechapel area

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60. “The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive

61. scum created by the processing of Mako energy; an irony in

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62. intact; the tasteless irony of a place inhabited by lifeless Shinra

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63. (I had rather hoped one of them would catch the irony, but it was missed, and Sarah merely sighed and said she would do her best)

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64. The documentary was based on British accounts of vampires, but how could they have struck such gold and what irony that it was treated like all the other strange stories as just another element of a fun cheesy show

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65. Huss raised an eyebrow, but there was no irony in the gesture—only comprehension

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66. In a perfect slice of God’s irony he noticed that a dog had left

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67. The irony of it was that the Visioneer was about to call a halt

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68. He couldn’t stop laughing at the irony of it all and just lay

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69. Verse 14, Paul uses irony to point out that some of the readers think that they are so spiritually

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70. I know that this verse contains irony, as it is country to the rest of the teaching in

71. Pure, delicious irony,” he smiled sickly

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72. The irony is that faith of a very different kind has been an essential ingredient in the foundation and advance of science itself

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73. The greater irony is that black chiefs of identity politics still ardently persuade their tribe to thank the Democrats for doing this to them by regularly voting Democrat by over 90 percent

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74. They added, apparently not intending the irony, that, “Drowning out opposing views is simply un-American

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75. Oh the irony I thought but I still couldn’t let this continue

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76. Yet how many people who worship secular progressive politics and the church of humanity see the irony in their belief system? This, too, is a faith-based fantasy—quasi-religious mumbo jumbo

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77. I laughed at the irony of Toby being the opposite of what he’d just described

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78. And, in an act of cruel irony, a few ferals even flaunt tufts of her hair—still rooted in chunks of bloody flesh—above their heads as trophies

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79. Another act of cruel irony

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80. Irony of ironies! Not only did Roger and Antonio pardon their family enemy, but they helped him in his hour of need, and they did it with kindness and satisfaction, leaving him to his inner thoughts of guilt

81. There was no sarcasm, irony or even frustration in her tone

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82. But this festive irony reached its climax recently when the impeachment of Nixon on grounds of unpopularity was dropped because it was found that Congress was more unpopular than the President, and later when the “New York Times” and Cox accused Nixon of being guilty of misprision (failure to report a felony to “some judge or other person in civil or military authority under the United States”)

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83. I saw the irony of again living on a state highway #32 (See Chestnut St

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84. There is more than one irony here: slaves were by now very cheap because of the victory of the Roman legions over subject peoples

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85. It is the greatest irony that when German, Russian, and Austrian generals met to discuss strategy against the French, they spoke in French

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86. The Prussian loss at Jena was tinged with irony; as the battle occurred there, the University of Jena was closed, and the students and professors had to flee

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87. In any case, regarding Judaism, there was a great irony here

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88. There is irony here

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89. The irony is that the original use of “hate crime”

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90. It is a great irony that I, who do not believe in racial preferences, should have to bother about this

91. Afterwards, when we talked it over, the irony of the situation became clear: she said it was the pushing me away that was

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92. It was mine to be duped, but the irony of the entire deal was that the proceeds of $3

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93. In the meantime if you’ve read this far, Johnnie and I want to say, and we mean this without irony, “Thanks a Million

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94. I did not recognize the irony in this conversation until many years later

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95. The irony of the conversation William and I had some many years ago comes to mind at this moment

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96. without irony, “this is what a prostitute does

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97. The irony it should be her who wields the power instead of himself has not escaped him

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98. The pilot missed the irony when Buey Dan answered

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99. The irony of it was that Whitey had both the mandate and the instrument to get to the President

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100. It took Simon a while to answer and he could find neither wit nor irony to lighten the load