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Example sentences for: offends

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

It offends common decency.
Copyright law in cyberspace offends because it limits what I can do in physical space.
It offends them to see researchers accepting the high cost of American medical care as a given.
"TRB" wonders why we're so concerned that President Clinton's behavior offends the military: "[I]f there's a worse reason for removing an elected president from office, I can't think of it.
It is closer to the truth to say that woolly circumlocutions, psychobabblous phrasing and sentiments, and language used as if it were a game of horseshoes (in which one expects points for being close) offends me.