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
• His offhand remark struck a chord.
  — Jordan Greene, PEOPLE, 7 Jan. 2026
• Founders start rewriting decks based on one offhand comment.
  — Holden Bruce, Forbes.com, 5 Mar. 2026
• That means an offhand remark could live far longer than the meeting itself.
  — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 9 Sep. 2025
• Sweet, a little macabre, and thrown in like an offhand comment in the middle of the video.
  — Lizzie Logan, Glamour, 25 Jan. 2023
• The movie takes an oblique, almost offhand approach to narrative for its first hour.
  — Glenn Kenny, New York Times, 6 July 2017
• In fact, Saved by the Bell's homage doesn't end with that one offhand reference.
  — Chancellor Agard, EW.com, 25 Nov. 2021
• The pronouncement felt like a prophecy, not just an offhand remark.
  — Janice Gary, Longreads, 18 Apr. 2018
• Then Trupp made an offhand comment about the lump to an athletic trainer at work.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 19 Jan. 2022
• Hollywood coming outs have been boiled down to an offhand joke or impulsive post.
  — André-Naquian Wheeler, Vogue, 10 Jan. 2023
• That offhand remark set everything in motion, from the designs to the dance floor.
  — Kelsey Stewart, Vogue, 17 Feb. 2026
• Sometimes, these games are only offhand events in characters’ lives.
  — Carey Baraka, The Atlantic, 28 July 2022
• Some advisers said that such comments appear to be just offhand musings.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 3 June 2021
• This wasn’t an offhand remark or a wish tossed out for consideration.
  — Scott McMurren, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Nov. 2019
• Binnie’s deadpan, offhand narration makes clear how little the plot is the point.
  — Stephanie Burt, The New Yorker, 20 June 2022
• 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
• The instance of someone with an offhand magical mindset is the aspect that ought to give us pause.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025
• 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
• 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
• Life-altering events are revealed in offhand comments or clause-long slips into the future tense.
  — Alice Gregory, The New Yorker, 9 Nov. 2020
• Anderson is very good at isolating items and showing how they can be worn together in an offhand way.
  — Sarah Mower, Vogue, 21 Feb. 2018
• 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
• Next, craft subject lines that are short, intriguing, and offhand, mimicking a friend's message to boost open rates.
  — Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026
• 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
• Alana Haim, also new to acting, is a true, offhand revelation.
  — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 26 Nov. 2021
• The key question here is whether the comment was feedback to be considered or simply an offhand remark to be dismissed.
  — Johnny C. Taylor Jr, USA Today, 24 Feb. 2026
• 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