"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

Grup znaczeniowych: 1

(1) lose, use, find, detect, lack

Kolokacji: 5

1. irony is lost = ironię straci irony is lost

2. use irony = ironia wykorzystania use irony

3. find irony = znajdź ironię find irony

4. lack irony = ironia braku lack irony

5. detect irony = wykryj ironię detect irony

Other critics detect irony at play in the final speech.
Keyboardist Christian Lorenz expressed surprise at the advisory board's "parochial sense of art" and regretted their apparent inability to detect irony.
I looked suspiciously at him, trying to detect irony in a face, which now regarded me blandly.
He actually gave me a copy of his extensive lexicon, so I could admire it, which I did, fulsomely- he was incapable of detecting irony if it was clad in acclamation.
Fm sure I've detected irony.
Bashir had never been good at detecting irony; he had no clue as to whether he was encountering it now.
But the redhead was still too busy with his coiffure to detect irony.
It's very difficult to detect irony on the internet.

adjetivo + irony

Kolokacji: 58

bitter irony • great irony • certain irony • cruel irony • heavy irony • ...

preposición + irony

Kolokacji: 9

of irony • with irony • without irony • in irony • for irony • ...

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