Example sentences for: offensive

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

  • Bradley finally made an effort to seize the offensive on health care, asking Gore repeatedly, "Who would you leave out?"

  • No less offensive, however, is the automatic presumption of quality in work that defines itself merely by its choice of subject matter and mannerism.

  • Watts might have found offensive here.

  • La Repubblica of Rome published a brief front-page comment by Nadine Gordimer, the Nobel Prize-winning South African novelist, deploring the NATO offensive "because it doesn't bring a solution to the horrors committed by Milosevic."

  • The papers report that as part of its anti-impeachment lobbying, the White House legal team went on the offensive yesterday, writing a letter to Hyde accusing Ken Starr of deliberately leaving exculpatory statements he'd turned up out of the formal report he tendered to Congress.


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