Example sentences for: offhand

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

  • USAT is a bit more offhand, mentioning the subpoena of the memos and of Freeh in the subhead, but holding off until halfway through the story before placing the president's subpoena third in a list of bullets.

  • The seeds of paranoia that were planted in the hothouse of the late '60s and early '70s germinated, and in the cynical, offhand conspiracism of the '90s, we reap their fruit.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Allen has never made a movie where the jokes seemed so offhand yet so precise--so beat-perfect.


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