Sentence examples for took offence from inspiring English sources

"I took offence.

She was wrong, but nobody took offence.

Some people took offence at us winning.

Readers took offence on her behalf.

Some listeners took offence at his tone.

"I took offence at the way he spoke to me.

Mr Kabila briefly took offence—"You call me a bushman?" he shot back.

The sensitive star took offence last year after we reported that he'd been seen chomping salad.

The army took offence at the station and got its licence suspended.

Unbelievably, some people took offence at this comment, which is, like, totally ridiculous.

Dirk took offence when Cleo's not so comic alter-ego, Tiara, tried to flirt with him.