1.   By a cruel irony, it was the sixth anniversary of their engagement.

2.   There was, indeed, a kind of cruel irony in the collapse of the irrigation companies.

3.   And, in a cruel irony, my face was sunburned.

4.   As the severity became apparent, so did the cruel irony of the external fixator.

5.   Before dismissing the controversial idea, consider the cruel irony of the rules that exist today.

6.   A cruel irony in the story, she said, is that she had always been a lover of birds.

7.   By a cruel irony, this policy has had the opposite effect to what was intended.

8.   Cruel irony seemed to come into play here.

9.   Cruel irony, then, that Sterling finds himself flirting with a parody of the yellow-peril fool that he and his parents most feared.

10.   It is likely a strike will shorten this baseball season, a cruel irony following the debut of realignment.