Example Sentences

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“Before we could make jokes about everything. We got the feeling that we were offending everybody.”

From Economist • Nov. 20, 2017

They joked about how they were offending each other: Will said, “I was making jokes about, ‘Oh my God, you’re never going to call me again.’

From Washington Post • Oct. 25, 2017

"As if I were the one you were offending!"

From Miss Billy — Married by Porter, Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman)

My Indians did not use weapons against anyone and made no more resistance than to seize arrows and take bows out of the hands of those who were offending.

From Colonial Expeditions to the Interior of California Central Valley, 1800-1820 Anthropological Records 16(6):239-292, 1958 by Cook, Sherburne Friend

Another disturbing feature is that in the case of boys more than half were committing their first offence, whereas only one-fifth of the girls were offending for the first time.

From Report of the Special Committee on Moral Delinquency in Children and Adolescents by Mazengarb, O. C. (Oswald Chettle)