Example sentences for: off-putting

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

  • I find the whole issue of "Women in Rock" a bit off-putting as well.

  • Also, the alphabetical order might prove a bit off-putting for some, for phrasal verbs are set flush left with a hanging indention (like headwords) immediately after the main verb: for instance, take , which has fifteen main entries of its own (for reasons we shall get to), is followed by headword-style entries for take after, take against , etc., through take up with ; it is only then that one reaches the entry for takeaway .

  • Product as a generic mercantile term for "marketable commodity" has been around for years, but it seems to have first acquired prominence as jargon--and specifically as a term with a somewhat off-putting aroma--in the recording industry during the 1960s.

  • You would not have been out of line to have brought this aggressive and off-putting action to the attention of the owner or manager, whichever one was present that night.

  • Professor Honey, an English linguist now on assignment in Bophuthatswana, one of the less easily pronounceable places in the world, writes in a straightforward, simple, casual, friendly style totally devoid of the off-putting symbols and technical jargon that usually mark writing on pronunciation.


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