| Octaves streak through the score sardonically, until the Grandioso reappears, borne on a powerful breath of air. |
| I laugh sardonically at the news broadcasts for their dreadful misanthropy. |
| They milled about him as he stood there, gazing down at them sardonically. |
| As one critic sardonically put it, their dollar salaries rise in inverse proportion to the obscurity of their work. |
| As he saw me to the door, he remarked sardonically that he was re-reading Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. |
| Here he imagines a New Yorker sardonically addressing his weekend hostess. |
