Sentence examples for has become offensive from inspiring English sources

"It ought to be removed from the charts because it is irrelevant and has become offensive to New Yorkers," said Parks Commissioner Henry J. Stern when the name was brought to his attention last week by a reporter.

2. Examine how some chat rooms and bulletin boards have become offensive arenas for gossip and slander.

Ian Brinkley, senior economist at the Trades Union Congress, says that, for the moment, means-testing is extending far enough up the income scale - higher rate taxpayers can get the Children's Tax Credit, for example - for it not to have become offensive.

Only in the last decade or two does this seem to have become "offensive" to Muslims.

A voter named Pamela called the congressman "proud and talented" at Saturday's town hall event in Primghar, King's first since facing a backlash for asking how the terms "white supremacist" and "white nationalist" had become offensive in an interview with The New York Times.

After questioning how the terms "white nationalist" and "white supremacist" had "become offensive" in a recent interview with The New York Times, Republican congressman Steve King of Iowa was harshly rebuked by GOP leaders and stripped of all his committee assignments in the current Congress.

Federer thinks Murray has become more offensive in his approach in the last year.

Williams has been much more than a novelty, he has become an offensive weapon.

It may be early for that, but Ventura has become an offensive force when the Mets need him most.

His on-base percentage is.329 because he has only 19 walks, but he has become an offensive force, leading the American League with 87 extra-base hits and 40 stolen bases.

Szczur, whose last name sounds like Caesar, has become an offensive focal point for second-seeded Villanova (11-1), whish is to play a second-round Football Championship Subdivision playoff game Saturday at home against New Hampshire (10-2).