Sentences with 'ironically'
Example sentences and phrases with the word ironically and other words derived from it.
• « Somewhat ironically, given the importance of the women's suffrage movement, feminists won other legal rights before the right to vote was realised in the period before the First World War. »
• « As American involvement grew, US orders of munitions and equipment from Japan revitalised the Japanese economy and, ironically, given the carnage of the Pacific theatre of World War II, began to forge a strong political alliance between the two former enemies. »
• « A 2018 US Army analysis of the war sadly concluded that the closest thing to a winner to emerge from the Iraq war was, ironically, Iran, which used the lawless aftermath of the invasion to exert tremendous influence in the region. »
• « The sovereign, for his part, merely replied, ironically: -Yes, it stings well, but it stings very high. »