Example sentences for: offensive

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

  • He said he wanted the air offensive to continue until Serb troops leave Kosovo and are replaced by a NATO-led peacekeeping force.

  • The law in this case is no more than a cover for a political offensive working methodically to destroy a man--and, by so doing, to undermine a democracy."

  • 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.

  • While it's probably true that democracies are unlikely to go to war unless they're attacked, sometimes they are the first to take the offensive.

  • Gingrich's comments are as offensive as usual, but even the milder form is absurd.


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