Want to use Offensive correctly in a sentence? These 20 example sentences show the word in context, together with its meaning and synonyms like invasive or attacking.
Offensive in a sentence
Related words
Offensive meaning
- Causing offense; arousing a visceral reaction of disgust, anger, hatred, sadness, or indignation.
- Relating to an offense or attack, as opposed to defensive.
- Having to do with play directed at scoring.
Example sentences (20)
The Bengals are also in need of a quarterbacks coach and an offensive line coach on the offensive side of the ball.
He was just named the league’s offensive rookie of the month and was PFT’s offensive rookie of the year this week.
Murphy was an All-American offensive lineman at Arizona State so expect quality offensive line play from the Mariners.
He played 11 offensive snaps in the Week 15 win over Miami and six offensive snaps in the Week 16 victory over Chicago.
Hill used captain and leader of the offensive line Parker Theis as a fullback instead of on the offensive line.
Running behind a solid offensive line, McCaffrey will look to win his first Offensive Player of the Year award at +1600.
Offensive coordinator Kliff Kingsbury was asked about the offensive line, and mentioned health several times.
In the first meeting, UCA crashed the offensive glass and grabbed 25 offensive rebounds to help erase a 16-point NSU lead.
The offensive line: One of the key matchups in this game was the Vikings offensive line against the 49ers defensive front.
The Timberwolves scored 17 second-chance points off nine offensive rebounds, including six offensive rebounds in the fourth.
Something that is theoretically offensive to me as a white guy may be viscerally offensive to a black man or an Asian woman.
There is a clear difference between using comedy to make social commentary and being offensive for the sake of being offensive.
The Eagles offensive line has come under attack in the media as the “worst offensive line” in football.
Baltimore has a new offensive coordinator and signed or drafted offensive weapons that included Odell Beckham Jr. and Zay Flowers.
Additionally, comedians making jokes that are deemed offensive does not actually mean that these comedians hold offensive beliefs.
The reason for the offensive trend is that a lot of new offensive coaches have had success recently.
That’s still a solid offensive line, with Driscoll being coached up by the best offensive line coach in the game in Jeff Stoutland.
The Raiders chose to let offensive coordinator Bill Musgrave leave the team and promoted Todd Downing to their offensive coordinator.
The clear disadvantage to this offensive formation is that there are only two attackers, leaving a team with fewer offensive weapons.
While Brady’s offensive tackles have been below average in this metric, his interior offensive line is doing a great job in protection.
Phrases with offensive
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Common combinations with offensive
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- offensive line 52×
- the offensive 44×
- offensive coordinator 36×
- an offensive 22×
- and offensive 10×
- offensive lineman 9×
- offensive tackle 8×
- offensive to 8×
- their offensive 7×
- of offensive 7×
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