Sentence examples for could give offence from inspiring English sources
They could give offence without even noticing.
"If they start getting rid of apostrophes now, commas will be next, then who knows what?" The Cambridge city council naming policy also bans street names that would be "difficult to pronounce or awkward to spell" and any that "could give offence" or would "encourage defacing of nameplates".
She goes on to apologise, writing: "However, after listening to the opinions of those who have listened to the song, I came to realise that its contents could have given offence and even caused some to grieve.
But no one could know about this at the time; Rebecca was presumably resolved to give offence to neither of her lovers.
Mr Blair went on: "It will give offence.
"I could reel off 50 Radio 4 programmes which do not conform to the mythology of people sitting there with decorated piano legs in case they give offence, tea cosies, woolly jumpers and open-neck sandals.
Eliot's offence lies in his willingness to give offence, in his deployment of anti-semitic language.
Trying not to give offence was, despite the excesses, a noble courtesy.
"He dared to give offence and to upset people.
Three thought it might give offence to the clinician and feared that being "pushy" would undermine future care.
