How to Use take offense in a Sentence

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• The actress said many background actors seemed to take offense with the scene and left the set.
  — Rosy Cordero, EW.com, 21 June 2020
• Others take offense at your opinions or tone as the moon and Mars clash!
  — USA TODAY, 12 Apr. 2023
• Klara does not take offense, but readers feel the question’s sting.
  — Heller McAlpin, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Mar. 2021
• What isn’t common is for an opponent to take offense to it.
  — Dallas News, 22 Jan. 2023
• Audrey smiled, but she’s been known to take offense when ElliQ is spoken to harshly.
  — Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 22 July 2023
• So why do those who take offense at comedy feel the need to marshal campaigns against the comic?
  — Harry Bruinius, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Nov. 2021
• But pay close attention to who chooses to take offense.
  — WSJ, 9 Mar. 2021
• The people calling it spa water shouldn’t take offense if they’re getting called out.
  — Elsa Cavazos, refinery29.com, 4 Aug. 2022
• Phoenicians have accepted for generations the theft of their river, usually without a thought, and the few who take offense vent their spleen on the agency with the power, the Salt River Project.
  — Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
• But Flash said workers at the sites visited by Scabby shouldn’t take offense, since the rat is protesting against contractors and companies, not the workers themselves.
  — Mae Anderson, BostonGlobe.com, 13 May 2023
• Those who supported the decision couldn't understand the issue, asking why anyone would even take offense at the option.
  — Emma Flint, Wired, 2 Dec. 2021
• Like most satires, The Blackening won’t be everyone’s cup of tea; there’ll undoubtedly be those who will take offense to the film’s irreverent takes on Black culture.
  — Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 20 June 2023
• The comments that followed ranged from utter ignorance that anyone could take offense at receiving a link, to a spirited embrace of the power move.
  — Nicole Gull McElroy, Fortune, 4 Feb. 2022
• Driven apart by covid and politics, our society has become even more divided and withdrawn, quicker to take offense and place blame.
  — Pamela Constable, Washington Post, 21 Jan. 2023
• But Pelosi celebrated their victories anyway and did not take offense, at least publicly, at their refusal to support her.
  — Michael Kazin, The New Republic, 23 Nov. 2022
• Those looking to take offense can certainly find condescension in the sentiment — or probably in its tone, depending on how it is said.
  — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 16 Sep. 2022
• The artist parried with mostly good humor, neither stooping to performative virtue nor being overly concerned with who might take offense.
  — Sergio Burstein, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2021
• In the absurdist precincts of the climate blogosphere, certain gatekeepers take offense when their icons and orthodoxy are challenged.
  — Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 20 July 2011
• Some said the party’s biggest challenge would be finding a way to sideline her without inflaming key Democratic constituencies that would take offense.
  — Peter Baker, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2023
• Some people might misinterpret your actions or take offense.
  — Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 29 Nov. 2020
• The image was not a satirical drawing but an illustration from medieval Persia, and López Prater gave advance warning, allowing any student who might take offense to leave.
  — Russell Jacoby, Harper's Magazine, 16 Feb. 2023
• The image was not a satirical drawing but an illustration from medieval Persia, and López Prater gave advance warning, allowing any student who might take offense to leave.
  — Russell Jacoby, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Feb. 2023
• No intelligent person — which, Christie concedes, Haley is — fears that normal people would take offense from her uttering something that is both incessantly discussed and self-evidently true.
  — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 1 Jan. 2024
• Big Boy is quick to take offense at human visitors, reacting with exaggerated raising and lowering of his head, which makes his neck look especially snake-like, and protesting like a chihuahua barking musically through a wheezy whistle.
  — Kevin Spear, orlandosentinel.com, 22 May 2021

Last Updated: 2 Dec 2024