How to Use ironically in a Sentence

ironically

adverb
  • In the process, the crown ironically passed to a rival from south of the border.
    — Bychristiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 14 June 2023
  • The best way to deal with this, ironically, is to own it.
    — Mitch Duckler, Fortune, 23 May 2024
  • But ironically, the one person who didn’t want to go to the strip club was Adam.
    — Anna Tingley, Variety, 12 May 2023
  • Here are some of the best Grinch quotes to (ironically) get you in the Christmas spirit.
    — Jasmine Gomez, Seventeen, 14 Dec. 2020
  • One friend points to the problem by sending me a link to, ironically, a tweet.
    — WIRED, 5 Dec. 2022
  • The stately spread was, ironically enough, known as The White House.
    — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 30 Jan. 2025
  • Now the guy is gone, and ironically, the company has not missed him at all.
    — Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Nov. 2023
  • Not that ironically, the former was Asian and the latter white.
    — Weike Wang, The New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2022
  • And ironically, horror films have played best when the world is in some kind of turmoil.
    — Vulture, 20 Jan. 2023
  • Somewhat ironically, a good place to start is in the gutter.
    — Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 22 Nov. 2024
  • The Patriots, ironically, set the record against Holy Cross in March 1996.
    — Ryan Gaydos, Fox News, 5 Mar. 2025
  • Culkin says hideous things to everyone, but ironically seems the most redeemable and wisest of the Roy kids.
    — Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 22 Mar. 2023
  • All the Pac-12’s playoff eggs are now in the basket of Southern California, ironically one of the schools with a foot out the door.
    — Eddie Timanus, USA TODAY, 14 Nov. 2022
  • Lighten up your night-out look this ruched off the shoulder style from Moré Noire, which ironically comes in white.
    — Madeline Fass, Vogue, 2 Dec. 2022
  • Al-Hathloul first came to prominence, ironically, in the campaign for women’s right to drive in the kingdom.
    — Matt Seaton, The New York Review of Books, 6 Nov. 2020
  • And although the shop is next door to The Ministry of Justice, ironically, no police were on hand in the area during the robbery.
    — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 3 May 2023
  • Josh Gasser, who ironically was in my office last night, did that.
    — Jeff Potrykus, Journal Sentinel, 27 Jan. 2023
  • Michael may be too late — ironically, Francesca is engaged to his cousin.
    — Kayla Keegan, Good Housekeeping, 16 Mar. 2022
  • No Way Home will (somewhat ironically) find a home one day on Disney+.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 21 Apr. 2021
  • The best defensive play, ironically, came against the run.
    — Nate Atkins, The Indianapolis Star, 17 Oct. 2022
  • None of it has really stuck, even ironically, on the right.
    — Ali Breland, The Atlantic, 8 Mar. 2025
  • Trump, ironically, is a wild card that could change the price direction.
    — Spencer Kimball, CNBC, 18 Dec. 2024
  • And, ironically for a show about rebellion, that happened in large part because of the bad guys.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 22 Dec. 2022
  • That’s all a far cry from the good times, which began, ironically, when the pandemic hit in early 2020.
    — Andy Hoffman, Fortune Europe, 8 Dec. 2023
  • Cuban, ironically, is one billionaire who gets the spirit of the left.
    — Hanna Trudo, The Hill, 7 Mar. 2025
  • The result is a movie that, ironically, might have functioned better as a TV show.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 28 Sep. 2021
  • But what pulled her out of a months-long creative slump was, ironically, the apocalypse.
    — Soleil Ho, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Apr. 2022
  • The things, ironically the people on the other side are suggesting that Trump is trying to take away.
    — Lexy Perez, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Feb. 2025
  • Even the actual story setup of both games is ironically similar.
    — Hayes Madsen, Rolling Stone, 19 Mar. 2025
  • Trump's remarks have ignited some debates over term limits, with some online users ironically speculating about a future White House bid by Barack Obama.
    — Ron Estes, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Mar. 2025

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