Example Sentences

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Phooey to dust on a random sea breeze or strewn on a field of unoffending vegetation.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 16, 2019

The last step came after House members had gone home for the holidays—but left themselves a parliamentary loophole through which to pass unoffending legislation.

From Science Magazine • Dec. 16, 2016

Unlike many plays of Broadway and films of Hollywood, they are free of pretension�unprepossessing, undisturbing and unoffending.

From Time Magazine Archive

Jefferson found the post "tranquil and unoffending," assuring him of "philosophical evenings in winter" and "rural days in summer."

From Time Magazine Archive

She was longing for them to go and could scarcely forbear slamming the unoffending portal in their faces.

From Marjorie Dean High School Senior by Chase, Josephine