frank

Example Sentences

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It’s frank, intimate, poetic in its elisions and profoundly haunting in its effect.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026

Greer said he was looking forward to frank conversations on WTO reform, its future role, and what it "realistically can, and cannot, accomplish".

From Barron's • Mar. 26, 2026

To be frank, I wasn’t sure I was up for a trilogy on Porkalob’s family history.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 17, 2026

She is unflinchingly frank about how "devastating" she finds being a mother.

From BBC • Mar. 13, 2026

As you may know, complimentary remarks of this type are all too often made by well-meaning adults to children who are, to be frank, perfectly ordinary- looking.

From "The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling" by Maryrose Wood