How to Use be honest/frank in a Sentence

be honest/frank

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  • Just seeing everybody, to be honest with you, whoever shows up to the reunion.
    — Carly Thomas, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 July 2024
  • To be honest, though, this was the only decent exhibition.
    — George Nelson, ARTnews.com, 15 July 2024
  • That means that any defense team must rely on the prosecution to be honest and thorough and turn over all of the evidence in an investigation to them before trial.
    — Aja Romano, Vox, 13 July 2024
  • There is no disgrace in veering away from politics, however, and, to Nashawaty’s credit, his book is more privately provocative, obliging its readers to be honest with themselves.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024
  • To be honest, though, the race the fans were here to see would not be one for the ages.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 21 Nov. 2023
  • The last few years haven’t been all that hot for Grace, to be honest.
    — Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 24 Jan. 2024
  • And to be honest, he’s been very good with that this year.
    — Jim Alexander, Orange County Register, 22 May 2024
  • To be honest, a few of them are still my very best friends.
    — Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 29 Mar. 2024
  • To be honest, there are enough shows out there that do that.
    — Brande Victorian, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Sep. 2023
  • Working on the lyrics was a bit of a struggle, to be honest.
    — Jeff Benjamin, Billboard, 29 Apr. 2023
  • To be honest, there are K-pop groups that fight a lot or don’t get along.
    — Kristine Kwak, Rolling Stone, 24 Oct. 2023
  • To be honest with you, that has to do with not drinking as well.
    — Daniela Avila, Peoplemag, 29 Aug. 2023
  • For me, the victory is to be here tonight, to be honest.
    — Daniela Avila, Peoplemag, 21 Oct. 2023
  • For me, the victory is to be here tonight, to be honest.
    — Daniela Avila, Peoplemag, 2 May 2024
  • But to be honest with you, my kids aren’t packing them in their lunch.
    — Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Feb. 2024
  • My job is to be me, to be honest, and come at it from a point of view that is always with the chef in mind.
    — Katlyn Moncada, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 Feb. 2024
  • Be brave and be honest with yourself about what stays and what goes.
    — Tarot.com, New York Daily News, 8 July 2024
  • My initial goal was just to give my friends jobs, to be honest.
    — Okla Jones, Essence, 12 June 2023
  • The hardest part on me is leaving this place, to be honest.
    — Michael Gehlken, Dallas News, 27 Aug. 2023
  • She and her top staff, which should be honest with both themselves and her.
    — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2023
  • To be honest, the state of the world is pretty depressing.
    — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 12 Dec. 2023
  • To heal, Marc needs to be honest with himself and those closest to him.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 28 Dec. 2023
  • Yeah, well, to be honest, the only way to go forward is to do things on your own terms.
    — Jason Pettigrew, SPIN, 7 June 2023
  • And to be honest, my hair and I don't always see eye to eye on our career.
    — Andrea Lavinthal, Peoplemag, 24 Jan. 2024
  • How much tinkering was done? To be honest, the core of it was already there.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 22 May 2024
  • Leslie Jones’s version of The Daily Show did a lot of stuff really well this week, to be frank.
    — Vulture, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Trevor Noah: Well, to be honest with you, my process is living life and then being on stage.
    — Okla Jones, Essence, 19 Dec. 2023
  • And a lot of people are frustrated about it, to be honest.
    — Mirjam Swanson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Dec. 2023
  • But to be honest, people wasn’t doing that around that time.
    — Xander Zellner, Billboard, 25 July 2023
  • To be honest, there’s a lot of components about movies that are out of your control.
    — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Feb. 2024

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