In the NBA, Manute Bol averaged less than three points a game on offense.

VOA: special.2010.07.05

The offense may be as small as a sentence copied from a book.

VOA: special.2009.04.16

Federal law makes being in United States illegally a civil offense.

VOA: special.2010.05.01

The speaker says: Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offense.

VOA: special.2011.04.17

His main offense seemed to be that he loved her.

VOA: special.2009.06.27

He says if libel remains a criminal offense, then even a Freedom of Information law is futile.

VOA: standard.2009.12.28

The judge said he had considered defense arguments for a lesser sentence because Selebi is 60 years old and it was his first offense.

VOA: standard.2010.08.03

However,lawyers point out that this was the maximum sentence the local court could have handed out for the offense for which the men were tried.

VOA: standard.2010.06.10