1.   It was an ironic situation, the two men in her life meeting like that.

2.   The potential for the opening creates an ironic situation.

3.   This is a most ironic situation when women have been bent over cooking pots from the age of the cavemen.

4.   This ironic situation was caused by a burst pipe near an abandoned construction site.

5.   Heavy rains are threatening part of the Brazilian harvest, an ironic situation, considering that one month ago the South American crops were suffering from drought.