Example sentences for: offbeat

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

  • Variety 's Dan Cox forecasts fewer action flicks and "more offbeat weepies than usual."

  • And then out of Owens' offbeat past appear his 10-year-old daughter, Jane, and her mother, Mary di Natali, whom he once urged to get an abortion and has since done his best to forget.

  • I hesitate to use the word "offbeat," which has come to describe a metronomical quirkiness that's as predictable as anything on the beat, but here the surreal touches are sprung without overture, like frogs that just happen to be hopping across the screen.

  • Yet another fun, if offbeat, idea is to ride a donkey from the port up to Fira town on Santorini.

  • He comes close in some of the offbeat writings that appear toward the end of the Library of America edition--especially in such nonsense aphorisms as "A poem is a cafe," "A poem is a pheasant," and "All men are murderers."


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