Example sentences for: offending

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

  • In March 2001, Judge Royce Lamberth, chief judge of the FISA Court, chastised the FBI, sending a letter to Ashcroft announcing he was banning an offending supervisory agent from appearing before the court.

  • Of course, Woody Allen captured this idea perfectly in Bananas , in the scene where he buys a pile of intellectual journals, and tries to slip a copy of a pornographic magazine in with them, only to have the shop owner holler, "Hey Harry, how much for a copy of Orgasm ?" Later, Allen sits on the subway, gazing at the offending item, which he has neatly tucked into the latest edition of Commentary , with an article by Irving Kristol on the cover (another favorite Woody Allen line, of course, comes in Annie Hall , when he quips that Dissent and Commentary have merged to form a new magazine called Dysentery-- I was probably one of the few 11-year-olds to laugh at that one).

  • "Only Paris has no Algeria plan," ran a headline in Germany's Die Welt over a story about France's fear of offending its former North African colony.

  • Some of the offending judges are quoted saying that they are "chagrined" and promise "to try to be more careful."

  • Treatment of severe adverse drug reactions is primarily supportive once a diagnosis has been established and the offending agent has been discontinued.


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