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Example sentences for: offends

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Another version of reality offends bureaucrats and is just as exaggerated, but it is very useful as a defense mechanism.
"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 just offends me that the president of the United States is, directly or indirectly, attacking his own country in a foreign land."
By extension, the mayor has the right to close down an art exhibit if it offends his sense of public decency.
This offends almost as much as that other staple, "How are you?"