frankly

Example Sentences

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This is, quite frankly, the last thing the prime minister needs.

From BBC • Apr. 16, 2026

Though it was sometimes called the Hungarian Versailles, their palace was, Mr. Currey writes, “in an isolated and frankly miserable location.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026

Eight years later, their “Faces of Death” doesn’t tell us anything we don’t already know and frankly, it’s not trying to.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026

He added that extreme declines like those seen Thursday, “or frankly over the last three months, are not based on investors selectively applying AI risk on a company-by-company basis.”

From MarketWatch • Apr. 9, 2026

His mother and grandparents might forgive the fact that she wasn’t Syrian on a good day, but frankly it wouldn’t matter what they thought, because he and Clara were never going to get there.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny