Sentence examples for innocuous comment from inspiring English sources

"What governor would take the time to write a personal note over a relatively innocuous comment?" asked McKeon.

"You laugh at the queerest things," a co-worker once observed, and the reference to "queer" in the otherwise innocuous comment made Woods nervous.

Miles hesitates to say anything definitive about his future because he knows that even the most innocuous comment can be held against a coach years later.

After passing the cash over, this man carpingly implies that Viorel doesn't believe his excuses, an outwardly innocuous comment that leads to a near-comic, uneasy conversation with a shudder of violence.

Kai Johnson, who was riding to his job at Google and stopped to sign the pledge, told the story of a cyclist who got in a fight with a fellow rider over an innocuous comment about signaling while passing.

At the end of the taping, Mr. Singh, speaking in Hindi, asked "Theek hai?" meaning "Is it all right?" It was most likely an innocuous comment to the cameraman that ordinarily would have been edited out.

It's too easy for seemingly innocuous comments to become fuel for someone else's fire.

Boom mikes follow Jackson, who was fined $75,000 for seemingly innocuous comments that he made — and were duly reported — on the labor situation.

In the video she explains: "It's these seemingly innocuous comments that are what contribute to creating this barrier to opportunities for women professionally".

A fortnight earlier, innocuous comments by McIlroy about what limited time may be left in Mickelson's career triggered a fierce reaction in the United States.

The dispute fits a pattern of recent incidents in which Venezuela, a major oil supplier to the United States, has grabbed onto seemingly innocuous comments or actions by American officials that it then seeks to turn into major confrontations.