Sentence Examples:
"I never saw one done so offhand," said Dwight.
It was familiar, and was answered offhand.
You may get in trouble if you mention names offhand.
Benton, apparently observing nothing amiss, introduced them in an offhand fashion.
"I can't say offhand," answered the other.
Will you forgive me for pressing you into service in so offhand a manner?
Whatever you think of it offhand, you should visit his laboratory yourselves, gentlemen.
I asked, in the offhand way of the old times.
You ought to know that you can't do good in that offhand way.'
He asked in an offhand manner calculated to avert suspicion.
Indeed, had she had to say offhand which, she would have answered plain.
That was a question less easily answered offhand.
I want some information he may be able to give me offhand.
"Sweeter," he answered, and he gave an offhand translation of two or three verses.
"These things can't be done offhand, if at all."
She tried to make herself light and offhand, and to be very frank with him.
He does not therefore condemn these offhand; he is content to suspend judgment, is he not?
"I used to know her a little," he said, in an offhand manner.
You can't decide anything about it in an abstract, offhand way.
In an offhand manner, to his next neighbor.
We do not offhand condemn the Law because we say it does not justify.
Brace was unable to answer it offhand.
Well, I can't tell you offhand just what I'll do, Don Manuel.
"All up with you now," he assured them in a genial, offhand fashion.
Why we feel obliged to obey is beyond offhand study.
Even then he had some reputation as an offhand shot.
"Better join us offhand, and make the best of the business."
Asked Peter with an offhand air.
"Oh, we're sufficiently introduced by this time," she said offhand.
I was confused to think I had asked you in that offhand way to my house.
Now, you say offhand, Cap, that there never was such a thing as a witch.
Why, I could name a dozen right offhand, which have ships sailing around the world.
I don't, and offhand I can't think of many people who do.
It has been sworn to, you may not amend a sworn statement in that offhand way.
He could not answer those questions offhand.
It was a bit of offhand folly born of an anxious moment.
"That is too difficult a question to answer offhand," he replied.
Can't destroy a document offhand and make a new one without legally destroying the first.
It is too great a thing for me to decide offhand.
The exact cost of an old house re-erected on a new site cannot be given offhand.
I really couldn't possibly tell you offhand.
I couldn't think of any myself right offhand, so I had to resort to the directory.
James nodded in offhand fashion as he took off his overcoat.
This question was not to be answered offhand.
I'd hang him offhand if it was me.
He was threatening Claire, trying to drive her into marrying him offhand.
She felt that it was scarcely a problem that could be settled offhand.
I should say offhand this was then about three o'clock in the evening.
Now offhand, wouldn't you say I would know how to operate it?
The offhand assertion was too casual to be real.
Twenty-seven yards, or about two-thirds the distance, if the shot was offhand.
Had I any reason or right to determine offhand that she was mistaken?
The offer is too important to be refused or accepted offhand.
Come up offhand, and I'll show where a big haul lies right in sight.
It was just a friendly offhand note, on a card.
Hurd could not think of them offhand.
She didn't want to spoil the chance he had given her of seeming offhand about the ring.
He could not have defined offhand what it was that he understood.
"By the way," I said, offhand like, "is Clarissa Goober in town?"
How many boys or men, even, can tell offhand the number at the present time?
Morgan fired one shot, offhand.
"And you answered it right offhand!"
He was handsome and bold and pleasant, offhand and gay and kind.
Harold thanked him in offhand phrase and went early to bed.
"This is sister Grace," said Johnny, with an offhand introduction.
Specially when it's done offhand and casual, the way we went at it.
And what is best for Lucy can't be thought out offhand.
It's not, however, an idea which I am prepared offhand to receive with enthusiasm.
He'll be more likely to give you information if you ask him offhand.
I do not know how to answer that offhand.
This matter needed some deep reflection, and could not be determined offhand.
The doctor was a little bearded man in white, with an offhand manner.
It isn't every day that a man and his wife get their lives saved in that offhand way!
We don't take little children offhand this way.
Norris himself could say offhand what its number is.
I began in an offhand but cautious manner to talk about Bernard.
"It was the best I could do offhand."
This made it plain that he must lose no time, but marry her offhand.
"Why, it would be hard to say offhand," the storekeeper had sufficient wit to reply.
The widow gave an offhand gesture.
Do you think I am talking offhand about this affair?
The best way is to marry them offhand, and take the nonsense out of them.'
She presented herself at his place with an offhand air.
"Now," said the inspector, "could you say, offhand, which finger those bones belong to?"
"Came to move your shack," he said in an offhand tone.
I could not decline it offhand.
"It's really just a routine case," Burris said in an offhand tone.
No one who has a pen in his hand for the first time can sit down and write offhand.
He said, resuming his offhand manner.
Boys and men should not be satisfied with any offhand statement that, "it is nothing."
His answers, on the other hand, were often a trifle reckless and offhand.
I thought offhand the piano tuner sounded a bit more domestic.
I offhand consider our communities as egalitarian, part of a larger egalitarian society.
Asked Stephen in an offhand manner.
He would have been revenged offhand!
"Oh, I remember her, although I don't believe I could give her number offhand."
The judge added that these poor animals had too often been condemned offhand.
Their association had been of the most offhand and informal character.
Call the Archbishop, and let the Prince and Princess be married offhand!