offense
noun
a violation or breaking of a social or moral rule; transgression; sin.
offenses
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pluralof offense.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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One of his offenses was writing an op-ed in these pages.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
Afghanistan citizen Haji Zada was never charged with a crime, but prosecutors had tried and convicted her son and son-in-law for terror offenses.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
His assignment was to find a way to stop the offenses in the Big 12.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
Due to the gravity of the offenses, the location where they were perpetrated, and the fact that he was already out on two separate bonds, Poland initially set his new bond at $1.25 million.
From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2026
They’d gotten kicked out in the last week of the previous school year, I learned, for what the Colonel called “the Trifecta”—they were caught committing three of Culver Creek’s expellable offenses at once.
From "Looking for Alaska" by John Green
