OFFENSIVE in a Sentence

Learn OFFENSIVE 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 OFFENSIVE, such as:
1. I find your attitude most offensive.
2. But if you only knew how offensive it was.
3. This scorn was not offensive to his master.
4. His mode of doing business is offensive to me.
5. Kutuzov did not consider any offensive necessary.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of OFFENSIVE
offensive
 a.  violating or tending to violate or offend against
 a.  unpleasant or disgusting especially to the senses
Classic Sentence: (58 in 4 pages)
1  After which offensive implication, he cut himself a crust of bread, and threw the knife down with a noise.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII
2  In his girdle he wore a long and double-edged dagger, which was the only offensive weapon about his person.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
3  I promise thee, brother Clerk," said he, "I will ask thee no more offensive questions.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
4  In himself he was wearisome, but as the friend of Tom and the admirer of Julia he became offensive.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
5  Yes; it is in two points offensive to me; I have two strong grounds of objection to it.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
6  There is always something offensive in the details of cunning.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 21
7  Olly, though without the tact to perceive when remarks were untimely, was saved by her very simplicity from rendering them offensive.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 4 The Halt on the Turnpike Road
8  I had gone up to ask him about you, and he was very offensive; accused me of coaxing you away from the service of the firm, and that sort of thing.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IV. The Adventure of The Stockbroker's Clerk
9  It will be obvious that any details which would help the reader exactly to identify the college or the criminal would be injudicious and offensive.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE THREE STUDENTS
10  This scorn was not offensive to his master.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III
11  But if you only knew how offensive it was.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VII
12  Balashev replied that there was "nothing offensive in the demand, because."
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER IV
13  The tune he was whistling, his gait, and the gesture with which he twirled his mustache, all now seemed offensive.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XXIX
14  Ermolov had been to see Bennigsen a few days previously and had entreated him to use his influence with the commander-in-chief to induce him to take the offensive.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER III
15  Kutuzov did not consider any offensive necessary.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER XV
Example Sentence: (41 in 3 pages)
1  The West African forces went on the offensive in response to attacks on them.
2  Consumers found the attitude of its staff offhand and generally offensive to the paying customer.
3  I find your attitude most offensive.
4  Conventional troop cuts will be accompanied by a reorganization of units in charge of offensive nuclear weapons.
5  He was charged with carrying an offensive weapon.
6  Jan was convicted of possessing an offensive weapon.
7  The police nicked me for carrying an offensive weapon.
8  He was then arrested and charged with possessing an offensive weapon.
9  He was convicted of carrying an offensive weapon.
10  Exactly what can be called an offensive weapon is still a grey area.
11  She pleaded guilty to carrying an offensive weapon.
12  In the eyes of the law his knife was an offensive weapon.
13  His mode of doing business is offensive to me.
14  Jody keeps Sally in for twenty-three minutes, watching her pick up the offensive plays and bluff her way through the defense.
15  Republicans acknowledged that they had little choice but to mount an all-out offensive on the Democratic nominee.