Offence used in a sentence

Offence in a sentence as a noun

Assange could very well be totally innocent, but that's a matter he should argue in Sweden where the alleged offence was committed, not the UK.

This woman was guilty of listening to a private conversation, taking some sort of offence and then going out of her way to publicly shame them.

Easy, right?in the military justice system, leaking classified docs is a punishable offence.

You convicted someone of an offence without trying them in a court of law. If we were in a jurisdiction where ****** is a capital offence, you could use exactly the same logic for lynching and hanging a man without bothering to try him.

In other news, the lawnmowing industry has successfully lobbied the state government to pass a groundbreaking law making it a criminal offence to loan your lawnmower to a neighbour.

> Some of this is welcome the statement about making it a criminal offence to possess images depicting rape sounds a good idea on the face of it, for example, for such material is deeply offensiveAre you ******* kidding me?

In 1866, the Supreme Court ruled in Ex parte Garland that the pardon power "extends to every offence known to the law, and may be exercised at any time after its commission, either before legal proceedings are taken, or during their pendency, or after conviction and judgment.