OFFENSE in a Sentence

Learn OFFENSE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
99 example sentences for OFFENSE, such as:
1. The best defense is offense.
2. Their team had a poor offense.
3. Once again he repeated the offense.
4. I find your attitude most offensive.
5. I must chastise you for this offense.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of OFFENSE
offense
 n.  a lack of politeness; a failure to show regard for others; wounding the feelings or others
 n.  the team that has the ball (or puck) and is trying to score
Classic Sentence: (58 in 4 pages)
1  Now, her never- too-scrupulous sense of honor was dulled by repetition of the offense and even fear of discovery had subsided.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
2  Will did not take offense but continued rubbing his hands before the flame.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
3  But, she told herself time and again, she would have to walk easily, gingerly, be meek under insults, yielding to injustices, never giving offense to anyone, black or white, who might do her harm.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
4  Once again he repeated the offense.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In V
5  Neither party had firearms, and the contest was to be decided in the deadliest manner, hand to hand, with weapons of offense, and none of defense.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 12
6  The squaws seized clubs, axes, or whatever weapon of offense first offered itself to their hands, and rushed eagerly to act their part in the cruel game that was at hand.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 23
7  He felt offended, and without his noticing it the feeling of offense immediately turned into one of disdain which was quite uncalled for.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IX
8  To expiate his huntsman's offense, Ilagin pressed the Rostovs to come to an upland of his about a mile away which he usually kept for himself and which, he said, swarmed with hares.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VI
9  And here we live, thank heaven, without offense.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER XII
10  Bingley was sure of being liked wherever he appeared, Darcy was continually giving offense.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
11  She was at least free from the offense of Mr. Darcy's further notice; though often standing within a very short distance of her, quite disengaged, he never came near enough to speak.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
12  He had only not to refuse things, not to show jealousy, not to be quarrelsome or take offense, all of which from his characteristic good nature he never did.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 5
13  The celebrated doctor did not take offense.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 1
14  For frivolity and jokes and spotted tights were an offense, when they intruded themselves upon a spirit that was exalted into the vague august realm of the romantic.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
15  To delay it a single day would be in my eyes now to commit a fresh offense.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 33 SOUBRETTE AND MISTRESS
Example Sentence: (41 in 3 pages)
1  I must chastise you for this offense.
2  Jack took offense at Jill's bawdy remarks. What kind of young man did she think he was?
3  When she realized that Darcy believed himself too good to dance with his inferiors, Elizabeth took great offense at his haughtiness.
4  We've got a great defense and our offense is a lot better than people give us credit for.
5  When Jean Valjean stole a loaf of bread to feed his starving sister, he committed a venial offense.
6  The Redskins' offense is stronger than their defense.
7  Those war plans rested on a belief in the ineluctable superiority of the offense over the defense.
8  The best defense is offense.
9  A globe-trotting, business-building commerce secretary, he operated on the theory that a good defense is a good offense.
10  Their team had a poor offense.
11  What you're seeing is a dominant defense and a balanced offense loaded with playmakers that has become potent under the junior quarterback.
12  The West African forces went on the offensive in response to attacks on them.
13  Consumers found the attitude of its staff offhand and generally offensive to the paying customer.
14  I find your attitude most offensive.
15  Conventional troop cuts will be accompanied by a reorganization of units in charge of offensive nuclear weapons.