How to Use offhand in a Sentence

offhand

adjective

• She spoke in an offhand manner.
• It was just an offhand remark.
• Even jokes, satire and offhand remarks can lead to charges and have.
  — Interview By Stephanie Saul, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2017
• Sweet, a little macabre, and thrown in like an offhand comment in the middle of the video.
  — Lizzie Logan, Glamour, 25 Jan. 2023
• In fact, Saved by the Bell's homage doesn't end with that one offhand reference.
  — Chancellor Agard, EW.com, 25 Nov. 2021
• Decades later, as a child growing up in Germany in the 1980s, Ibrahim came across an offhand mention of Stromer and the lost Spinosaurus bones.
  — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 15 May 2016
• So, in an offhand comment on April 17, Trump said the payments should be returned.
  — Washington Post, 26 June 2020
• His point was that the best thing about Nelson’s genius might be its no-big-deal quality; the proof was the offhand beauty of the song.
  — Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2022
• Mitchum is offhand and amusing as the super-rich tycoon.
  — James Powers, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 May 2018
• The trigger breaks at only 3.5 pounds, making offhand shots easy despite the 12-pound weight of the rifle.
  — Joseph Albanese, Field & Stream, 21 Aug. 2020
• The idea for this approach started with an offhand remark.
  — Ben Thomas, Discover Magazine, 23 Jan. 2015
• Then Trupp made an offhand comment about the lump to an athletic trainer at work.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 19 Jan. 2022
• The movie takes an oblique, almost offhand approach to narrative for its first hour.
  — Glenn Kenny, New York Times, 6 July 2017
• Morris said Monday the quote was taken out of context and was meant more as a joke or offhand comment.
  — Jonathan Glover, The Seattle Times, 6 Nov. 2018
• Once, after the pastor made an offhand joke about women not being able to preach, Williamson had a panic attack in the pews.
  — Stephanie Russell-Kraft, The New Republic, 23 Mar. 2021
• The president, who is known to tear asunder the White House’s plans with a provocative tweet or offhand comment, has largely stuck to the script for opening days of the trip.
  — Jonathan Lemire, The Denver Post, 21 May 2017
• Rather than leaving it as an offhand comment, Gifford woke at 2 a.m. the next morning, eager to make a movie around the magic.
  — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 1 Oct. 2020
• The pronouncement felt like a prophecy, not just an offhand remark.
  — Janice Gary, Longreads, 18 Apr. 2018
• Greenfield Mayor Michael Neitzke didn’t know the answer offhand.
  — Bob Dohr, Journal Sentinel, 22 Mar. 2023
• There was something ineffable—not quite a je ne sais quoi, more like non so che cosa—about the offhand elegance of the place.
  — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 29 Oct. 2023
• Their every back-and-forth has verbal snap as well as the offhand intimacy of people with a deep bond.
  — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 June 2017
• Binnie’s deadpan, offhand narration makes clear how little the plot is the point.
  — Stephanie Burt, The New Yorker, 20 June 2022
• Rock took his sweet time addressing the slap, with just two offhand remarks until the final minutes of the special.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 5 Mar. 2023
• Maybe there’s a kernel of truth in some of this stuff, but how much is just an offhand comment being twisted and then blown out of proportion?
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 17 Oct. 2019
• Workers will miss out on nonverbal cues, offhand comments, as well as the mood, and tone of their coworkers.
  — Lila MacLellan, Fortune, 10 Nov. 2023
• The son of an infamous modelling agent blessed with perfect rockstar looks and a gift for offhand melodies, Casablancas is a tough nut to crack.
  — Andrew Barker, Variety, 24 Jan. 2022
• In the wake of Trump’s unexpected, almost offhand comments to reporters, the Pentagon had nothing to say about the future of the war games.
  — Washington Post, 12 June 2018
• Later in the trial on Wednesday, Schroeder made an outlandish offhand remark when declaring what time the court would break for lunch.
  — Peter Wade, Rolling Stone, 11 Nov. 2021
• Without it there will be less bubbling creativity, less of the chance meeting in the hall and the offhand comment that results in brains sparking off brains.
  — Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 28 July 2022
• Skilled offhand shooters know that a good fast shot is better than a perfect slow shot because your target is going to move in the next second or two and the slow shot will miss.
  — The Editors, Field & Stream, 4 June 2020

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024