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How to use irreverently in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word irreverently? Here are some examples.

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In the great tradition, he uses old soul records both lovingly and irreverently.
Conservative critics should pay closer attention to what South Park so irreverently jeers at and mocks.
Scouse wit undercuts bombastic couplet, and the text is presented irreverently and iconoclastically.
This man, whom we irreverently called Alfie, attempted to enforce military discipline on all of us.
Casuarina irreverently and energetically paints us a faithful rendering of this musical tradition that is nonetheless brimming with new ideas.
Sheen seemed especially up to the task, riffing irreverently off every question.
I have heard some of his colleagues irreverently refer to him as Paddy.
And the series has stayed focused — saltily, irreverently, but always passionately — on a band of firehouse brothers and their loved ones.
To others it was simply a bird, although one officer irreverently suggested it was a pregnant duck.
Wore it irreverently, allusively, because he and his people were attached to one of the little allegorical towns out there in Pennsylvania German land.
She charged that Knox spoke irreverently of the Queen in order to make her appear contemptible to her subjects.
In the midst of mythological plays, the clowns comment irreverently on political or social issues of the day, seemingly as spokesmen for the common man in an otherwise aristocratic world.
Examples from Classical Literature
Why, we got this shindig up, he noted irreverently, just so Miss Lane could sing at it.
And, irreverently, he was putting out a swollen tongue at his Managing Director.
Occasionally one of them skipped irreverently over the carpet and took up a position on the other side.
This story, heartlessly and irreverently told, was the tragedy of my life!
This she threw irreverently on a desk, and tossed its pages over until she came to one only partly covered with manuscript confessions.
Did you think me speaking improperly, lightly, irreverently on the subject?
If you knew Him at all, you would not talk of Him so irreverently.
And we have stolen upon Miss Hepzibah Pyncheon, too irreverently, at the instant of time when the patrician lady is to be transformed into the plebeian woman.
To him enters Fyne, wound up, if I may express myself so irreverently, wound up to a high pitch by his wife's interpretation of the girl's letter.
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