Sentence examples for offhand use from inspiring English sources

A hint of this survives in some of the dialogue that Larry Gross's screenplay has carefully lifted from Dubus's pages: Jack's odd, offhand use of the word carnivorous, for example, or the tinny grandiloquence he falls into during an argument with Terry.

Can't think of an example offhand if you use "great power" pretty narrowly.

As the connotation of HRQOL shows cultural differences (ibid)., these instruments cannot be used offhand for comparing populations across different countries without difficulties.

The orthodox-skeptics used an offhand comment in a Lifestyle article to justify their depiction of the entirety of the scientific community, apparently hoping no one would question the source.

He wants to dismiss us offhand.

On "Used to Be" he's hilariously offhand in his dismissal: "You used to be anti-Internet/ But now you constantly blogging".

Hearing from one of the murderers he has hired that Banquo lies dead in a ditch, with 20 gashes in his head, Mr. Cumming uses the same offhand tone to reply, "Thanks for that".

The Kieninger trap is named after Georg Kieninger who used it in an offhand game against Godai at Vienna in 1925.

I still go to Expecting Rain every day, but, truthfully, it's not as much fun as it once was, because it used to point to strange, offhand allusions; they have now been crowded out by all the big wonky-wonk think pieces.

As a whole, the proposed simplified analysis may be used as a convenient and offhand tool at the preliminary stage of design.

Modest, offhand, wry: These are not words you typically use when describing a bandleader.