Example sentences for: offhand

How can you use “offhand” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • An offhand comment made by Hyde during the Senate trial--that he would sacrifice his seat in defense of the unborn, the nation's security, and the Constitution--sums up the best Republican agenda for 2000.

  • USAT is a bit more offhand, mentioning the subpoena of the memos and of Freeh in the subhead, but holding off until halfway through the story before placing the president's subpoena third in a list of bullets.

  • (The quote is from David Whitman's The Optimism Gap .) Earlier this month, Bennett spoke in a similar vein when he defended an offhand swipe at Robert Bork's sourpuss tome Slouching Towards Gomorrah that George W. Bush made in a recent speech on education.

  • But some of Smith's doodles and offhand remarks give one pause.

  • Blackard says she has difficulty remembering the details offhand but that "I know he grabbed her.


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