Sentence for irony | Use irony in a sentence

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• What irony! (8)
• Vernon had no irony. (10)
• This was irony indeed! (8)
• His irony was crushing…. (8)
• His irony landed him there. (10)
• Was it all a jest, an irony? (9)
• Only you speak in irony so much. (10)
• The tone of irony was now unmistakable. (1)
• That was a phrase of bitter irony indeed! (8)
• A kind of defensive irony welled up in him. (8)
• Mr. Redworth would admit no irony in that! (10)
• That was irony, about my clear conscience. (10)
• The irony of the situation aroused his red blood. (18)
• Therefore, either way the irony of Life is proved. (10)
• To me, uniformly civil, no irony, few compliments. (10)
• It ran the shrewdest irony through him, inexplicably. (10)
• I will heap no more clumsy irony on it: I can pity it. (10)
• What crude and wanton irony there was in his situation! (8)
• She had spoken of the irony in allusion to her freedom. (10)
• If Stoller felt his irony, he did not know what to answer. (9)
• She received it curtseying, and disarmed the intended irony. (10)
• She received it curtseying, and disarmed the intended irony. (22)
• Jolyon gazed at her in a stupefaction that was tinged with irony. (8)
• Lord Valleys raised his brows, in irony and a sort of admiration. (8)
• The counter-question was a fair retort enfolding a gentler irony. (10)
• Aminta read the unreproachful irony in the smile addressed to her. (10)
• And after staring at her just a moment he would acquit her of irony. (8)
• She could not find it in her to enjoy the irony of this coincidence. (8)
• Humour, Satire, Irony, pounce on it altogether as their common prey. (10)
• It is a piece of irony, of which I must explain to you the importance. (8)
• It was at this piece of supreme irony that Mr. Pendyce looked longest. (8)
• Jolly Butcher Billing spoke; but with none of the irony of confidence. (10)
• Sharp epigrams and notes of irony provoked his laughter more than fun. (10)
• There is nothing that gives more courage than to see the irony of things. (8)
• This thought unto my sister do I owe, And irony and satire off me throw. (10)
• If there was irony in the gesture, it was not perceived by Frances Freeland. (8)
• The degrading, utterly different, back view of them teaches that Life is an irony. (10)
• He was very well versed in irony, and everything that evening seemed to him ironical. (8)
• No argument, no irony, no appeals, can long withstand the iteration of a dogged phrase. (22)
• Renee put out her hand to him; with compassionate irony feigning to have heard excuses. (10)
• A sad irony, which told that much gold-leaf had peeled away from her image in his heart. (10)
• It was perhaps his first attempt at irony, and he could not help thinking how good it was. (8)
• The mental distilling process sets in later, and then you have irony instead of eloquence. (10)
• Cornelia murmured the word musically, as if to suck an irony from the sweetness of the sound. (10)
• The essential meaning, truth, beauty, and irony of things may be revealed under all these forms. (8)
• In the affairs of men there is an irony constant and deep, mingled with the very springs of life. (8)
• Fellingham parried him with a sedate gravity of irony that was painfully perceptible to Anisette. (10)
• The tumult of irony, abuse, and retort, went on despite the efforts of Drummond and the chairman. (10)
• She spoke long and vehemently, using irony, coarse and fine, with the eloquence which was her gift. (10)
• He was urged by some spur of senseless irony to verify the calculation and correct it in the minutes. (10)
• I cannot remember them, unhappily; but for neatness and irony, never was anything so delicious heard. (10)
• Perhaps there was a touch of irony in this demand, but it is certain that he was very happy in England. (9)
• Irony and sarcasm relieve his emotions, but he convinces her he is dealing plainly and intends generosity. (10)
• The note of a sad irony in his words appealed to such indignation for him in Ellen as she never felt for herself. (9)
• Perceiving that she meant no irony, the agent produced a sound from somewhere deep and went out to summon his men. (8)
• Richard spoke sedately, but the irony was perceptible and he could speak no other way, his bitterness was so intense. (10)
• Byron had splendid powers of humour, and the most poetic satire that we have example of, fusing at times to hard irony. (10)
• These themes form the basis of the music, and are varied and developed with infinite skill and remarkable orchestral irony. (3)
• In the presence of that cake this observation seemed to mask an irony so shrewd that Mrs. Berry could barely contain herself. (10)
• Sir Willoughby glanced at Dehors with his customary benevolent irony in speaking of the persons, great in their way, who served him. (10)
• His own gaze did not fall; this sanguine face, with its two-day growth of reddish beard, long nose, full lips, and irony, puzzled him. (8)
• He looked at her with delicate irony in his voice and smile, and she fetched another sigh, so deep and sore now that he laughed outright. (9)
• Here was Evan mouthing his farewell to Rose, using phrases so profoundly humble, that a listener would have taken them for bitter irony. (10)
• The respectful formality of the posture imperfectly concealed the irony of the question, but I was not of the kind to be easily silenced. (7)
• Seeing Marko too, assured of it by his broken look, the terrible mournfulness less than the horrible irony of the truth gnawed within her. (10)
• And Nature with her quaint irony began working in him one of her strange revolutions, following her cyclic laws into the depths of his heart. (8)

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