"irony" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

irony sustantivo

irony + verbo
Kolokacji: 5
irony strikes • irony escapes • irony lies • Irony abounds • irony makes
verbo + irony
Kolokacji: 5
irony is lost • use irony • find irony • detect irony • lack irony
adjetivo + irony
Kolokacji: 58
bitter irony • great irony • certain irony • cruel irony • heavy irony • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 16
(5) ultimate, final
Kolokacji: 2
(7) sad, tragic, bittersweet
Kolokacji: 3
(9) gentle, mild, far
Kolokacji: 3
(10) historical, real
Kolokacji: 2
(11) apparent, obvious
Kolokacji: 2
(13) strange, curious
Kolokacji: 2
1. strange irony = dziwna ironia strange irony
  • The manipulations of fate often contain a strange irony.
  • "There's a strange irony to this whole affair," Laurie said, shaking her head.
  • In a strange irony, Ali doesn't know that he has a son by Nazar.
  • Don Juan commented on the strange irony that had always marked his benefactor's life.
  • The man with the flat voice talked on, without heeding him, of the strange irony of Butteridge's death.
  • And - strange irony - the mutinies were not to be wished away.
  • She understood the strange, crude, hilarious irony of being in the public's imagination.
  • But, he said yesterday, "in a strange irony of life," he was now a threat to that majority.
  • Magazines now confront a strange irony: they belong to an enormous media apparatus that includes the Internet, television magazine programs, 24-hour cable news.
  • A strange irony, she who had never seen weather as a child was now having to deal with weather at its wildest.
2. curious irony = ciekawa ironia curious irony
preposición + irony
Kolokacji: 9
of irony • with irony • without irony • in irony • for irony • ...

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