Sentence examples for offhand statement from inspiring English sources

His offhand statement quickly became the second alcohol-related news that he made in less than a week.

The winner is Senator John McCain, for an apparently offhand statement made aboard his campaign bus, the Straight Talk Express, rolling through South Carolina.

That year, Mr. Reid, asked to support a moratorium on the practice, said he would go further and press for its repeal, an offhand statement that ignited the repeal efforts in his chamber.

Dündar told me that even a cafeteria worker at the Cumhuriyet office in Istanbul had been jailed for several days after making an offhand statement about how he would never serve tea to Erdoğan.

I took time to think about the offhand statement made by someone whose opinion and counsel I had sought and valued.

Teresa remembers stirring a soup she was making for dinner - she'd just added a pinch more salt - when Libby made what seemed to be an offhand statement that turned Teresa icy cold.

The comment ― not an offhand remark, but a statement released by his campaign ― led to criticism from a number of his fellow Republicans.

In offhand remarks and blunt statements, this season marks the beginning of the argument that the aristocratic estate is essentially a one-industry town.

I didn't pursue the details; by now I understood that the blandly offhand tone of such statements was basically the point.

To preserve the illusion of moment-to-moment realism, the stories' profundities must always seem offhand, their telling thematic statements accidental.

That last statement was an offhand reference to the negotiations now under way to determine the size and shape of an American military presence in Afghanistan past 2014, and perhaps to the billions in dollars of future American aid already committed to the country.