Example sentences for: offended

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

  • Paul Krugman replies: I'm sorry that Alan Tonelson's offended dignity has prevented him from actually taking on board the substantive arguments that I made in my article.

  • As someone who's lived in four of the five boroughs, whose family (on both sides) has lived in the city since arriving in America, and who worked for the City of New York, I am offended.

  • House Majority Leader Dick Armey, House Majority Whip Tom DeLay, Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, and Senate Majority Whip Don Nickles claim that Milosevic was open to peace all along, that the war and its casualties were our fault, that we needlessly offended Russia, and that our "victory" is false.

  • Today's Papers apologizes to anyone--including convicted felons--who was offended by this mistake.

  • Meanwhile, Corriere della Sera of Milan "deeply offended" (source, the Times of London) Chancellor Helmut Kohl of Germany by publishing a front-page cartoon of him in the uniform and helmet of a Nazi concentration-camp guard to mark his arrival in Rome for a summit meeting with Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi.


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