Example sentences for: offhand

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

  • If I sound sour compared with other critics, it's because I think Levinson missed a chance to get something unique and audacious on screen: the story of a thin-skinned Jewish kid who'd grow up to make autobiographical movies that somehow leave out the Jewishness and then get so enraged by a critic's offhand projection of Jewishness into a big WASPy sci-fi picture that he vows to go back and remake his other films with Jews instead of gentiles.

  • There's a reciprocal malarkey as well: The experts pretend to know offhand the history of the object.

  • An offhand comment made by Hyde during the Senate trial--that he would sacrifice his seat in defense of the unborn, the nation's security, and the Constitution--sums up the best Republican agenda for 2000.

  • Although we all plan to be civilized about it, if my father makes some offhand comment about the situation, it will be awkward to say the least.

  • But his offhand comment that Bonnie and Clyde "presents criminality in soft focus" is so off-the-beam it taints his entire analysis.


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