Sentence examples for offending around from inspiring English sources

How could they not have known about the beehive of offending around them, the crown asked.

The bus lanes remained fairly clear of offending traffic around lunchtime on Monday.

In 2006, the writers Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman explained that it often felt like "walking on eggshells" to worry so much about offending those around them.

My view would be that a lot of the audience, were interested by what he was saying but a little unsure how to react without offending others around them.

Not only can a quick primer on body language, hand gestures, and greetings keep you from unwittingly offending those around you, it's also a perfect window into your host culture.

Parker, Stone and Lopez don't go out of their way to avoid stereotypes, but as in South Park (and Lopez's other hit musical Avenue Q) it's a deliberate part of the disarming shtick, they get around to offending everybody equally.

He handed me a four-inch stack of paper, his latest batch of rejections from the censors, each page marked with red-ink circles around offending phrases.

Yet able to fill their grounds as a matter of course, wary of the legitimate issues around offending those affected by the Hillsborough disaster and – as is always the case in modern football – unable to see much immediate economic benefit, top-flight clubs have been content to let the naturally conservative instincts of the Premier League executive chairman, Richard Scudamore, set the tone.

My whole life revolved around offending.

The touch kiss can feel great, but avoid offending the people around you.

Being tactful means knowing how to make a point without offending the people around you; it doesn't mean that you have to lie to get your point across.