How to use "irony" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "irony" in popular movie and book plots

  • Lyman comments on the irony that he first met Sondra by saving her from drowning, and now she really would drown.  - Scoop (2006 film)
  • In their cell, Archer and Reed contemplate the irony of their adherence to an early version of Starfleet's Prime Directive.  - The Communicator (Star Trek: Enterprise)
  • When she receives the news that her husband in Spain has died and that she's inherited his entire fortune, Triana laughs at the irony of fate.  - Piel de otoño
  • This causes one reporter to comment that "if irony were made of strawberries, we'd all be drinking a lot of smoothies right now".  - Krazy Kripples
  • The irony of the scene is that in the first film it was exactly the opposite, where Viktor was the role model.  - Brother 2
  • The irony being that Dick and the Dandies spend all of their time using guns.  - Dear Wendy
  • Of course, the irony is that Minnie no longer has her watch—just as Mickey no longer has his harmonica—so the gifts are essentially useless.  - Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas
  • The final act introduces a powerful irony as Oronte and Enrique arrive on the scene and announce that Horace is to marry Enrique's daughter.  - The School for Wives
  • Welles discusses the irony of Irving commenting on Elmyr's forgery while having committed a version of it himself.  - F for Fake
  • This is the supreme irony of the story.  - The Man Without a Country
  • Graves takes the chemicals, noting with irony that they may also kill him, and enters the apartment.  - Binary (novel)
  • Traveler, Talita and Horacio decide to go to work there despite the irony of the situation, or perhaps because of it.  - Hopscotch (Cortázar novel)
  • The irony is that Tony did everything he could to discourage Jackie's criminal aspirations, having promised Jackie Sr.  - Meadow Soprano
  • There is a hidden irony in Sark's dominion over Florina: clear parallels to the American South growing cotton with slave labor.  - The Currents of Space
  • The man dwells on the irony that he may have gassed the child's family and yet he has saved her.  - Things to Come
  • Warden notes the irony of the boxing tournament being canceled because of the attack.  - From Here to Eternity

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