sarcasm
Example Sentences
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A striking example is the unmarried narrator of Before the Change, who is back home for a visit with her father, a local physician who communicates in sarcasms.
From Time Magazine Archive
He won a seat in Parliament in 1952, occasionally made bitter sarcasms about Nehru and died of a heart attack in 1960.
From Time Magazine Archive
Gradually and painfully, coached by colleagues and profiting by errors, Oppenheimer learned to put a checkrein on his galloping mind, to raise his voice, and to save, his sarcasms for showoffs and frauds.*
From Time Magazine Archive
With these earthy sarcasms, the ex-farmboy who bosses about one-fifth of the world's people came down last July from the Olympian remoteness in which he has been wrapped for seven years.
From Time Magazine Archive
It came from the surly angers of Gawaine, the fripperies of Mordred, and the sarcasms of Agravaine.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
Vocabulary lists containing sarcasm
Literary Devices & Figures of Speech - Introductory
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The AP English Exam: Rhetorical and Literary Terms 2
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