Sentence examples for an offhand answer from inspiring English sources

Last month, he twice found himself forced to clarify something he had said, first on whether he supported an end to birthright citizenship and again after an offhand answer suggesting he favored building a wall on the U.S.-Canadian border.

I don't even remember how it started--in an offhand answer to an innocuous question, no doubt.

But what still thrills him most is providing offhand answers to questions steeped in obscurity.

People who must interact with a Codependent often feel "forced" into telling an offhand lie in answer to a codependent's manipulative question, and this should be avoided; recognize that it is completely within your rights to say, "I wouldn't be comfortable answering that question".

"Oh, Russia," I said in an offhand voice.

It was an offhand way of phrasing a seismic shift.

Mullen, a former Marine Corps colonel, has an offhand, ironic manner.

Just a casual question, an offhand remark, as it were.

"Often there's an offhand quality to the work".

It was an offhand comment, and obviously true.

But then he made an offhand comment: he also coached a rugby team composed of convicts.