His father, who had once been in a dependent position, and so was sensitive and ready to take offense, met him at first with distrust and sullenness.
She thinks a great deal of your opinion, Alexey Fyodorovitch, and don’t take offense or be wounded by her if you can help it.
You know it is sometimes very pleasant to take offense, isn’t it?
To turn up the nose and inhale air, as an expression of contempt; hence, to take offense.
To bluster or swell with anger, pride, or arrogance; to storm; to take offense.
To take offense, to feel, or assume to be, injured or affronted; to become angry or hostile.
She, at least, felt sure that it was as impossible for the young duke to take offense at the rudeness of the old iron man as at the raging of a dog or the tearing of a bull.
Mrs. Stillwater seemed determined not to understand coldness or to take offense.
A gentleman is gentle, modest, courteous, slow to take offense, and never giving it.
I have in mind a very strong, vigorous editorial writer who is so prone to take offense that he can not hold a position either on a magazine or a daily paper.
Many a good business man has been kept back, or even ruined, by his quickness to take offense, or to resent a fancied slight.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "take offense" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
