How to Use frank in a Sentence

frank

adjective
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  • And there’s still, just to be quite frank with you, this is the beginning of a process.
    — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Ed took his king and — perhaps with an air of frank and open honesty — led the eight of clubs.
    — Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 2 Jan. 2024
  • To be frank, this is fairly dense stuff, for safety nerds.
    — Brad Templeton, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2023
  • But the other is, to be perfectly frank, this work is my life.
    — Ted Koppel, CBS News, 26 Feb. 2023
  • To be frank, the labels are companies that sell their artists.
    — Felice León, Essence, 21 June 2023
  • Kate, a frank Midwesterner, described all of this on the phone to me last week.
    — Monica Hesse, Washington Post, 5 Apr. 2023
  • McBride resists this through speaking to those who knew his subject and aren’t afraid to be frank.
    — Jessica Ferri, Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2022
  • Leslie Jones’s version of The Daily Show did a lot of stuff really well this week, to be frank.
    — Vulture, 17 Nov. 2023
  • The conversations the two have on their trip are admirably frank.
    — In Will & Harper, Vulture, 23 Jan. 2024
  • To be frank, there has been no other product on the market to have such an impact on my lips.
    — Jessica Ourisman, Allure, 18 Dec. 2022
  • Chu does not appear to be looking over his shoulder much in his frank farewell.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Mar. 2023
  • And these candidates are, to be frank, a danger to our country.
    — Rhonda Abrams, USA TODAY, 24 Oct. 2022
  • Some of the leaders come and speak to me very often, and very frank conversations.
    — Sudarsan Raghavan, Washington Post, 27 Dec. 2022
  • Amazingly frank for 1962, right down to the Greenwich Village gay bar scene.
    — The New Republic, 22 June 2023
  • Miss Lansbury is frank to acknowledge that lady luck has been good to her.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Oct. 2022
  • Salma Hayek got frank about the effects of aging on Instagram.
    — Alexis Jones, Peoplemag, 6 June 2023
  • Baptiste was frank with what his ambitions were on fight night.
    — Joe Eachus, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Don't forget to snap a photo of your beef frank or corn dog below the trademark signage.
    — Lauren Dana Ellman, Travel + Leisure, 21 Oct. 2023
  • The rest of her narrative is recounted in the same frank, matter-of-fact style as her paintings.
    — Adam Nossiter, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2024
  • Because McDonough was always frank about the state of the team, there was speculation at the time that his candor cost him the job.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Aug. 2023
  • And Elon is very frank in saying that xAI is a competitor to these companies.
    — Michael Calore, WIRED, 20 July 2023
  • To be frank, tracking down those jersey numbers would be ... a challenge.
    — Jr Radcliffe, Journal Sentinel, 18 Nov. 2022
  • One wonder of the series is Wilkes’s frank treatment of her parents’ bodies.
    — Eren Orbey, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2023
  • Nordstrom reviewers, however, tend to be a bit more tight-lipped (and stingy with the five-star reviews, to be frank).
    — Jessica Teich, Good Housekeeping, 19 Aug. 2020
  • As a mom of two 16-year-olds [myself], their attitudes around periods are so much more frank and open.
    — Maddie Browning, BostonGlobe.com, 9 May 2023
  • While the stories hop around in time, the funny, frank narrator, David, remains a fixture.
    — Washington Post Staff, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2023
  • To be quite frank, everybody, outside of Dan, had a little bit of a harder time talking about that.
    — Charna Flam, Variety, 28 June 2023
  • It’s always been the professional’s platform and, to be frank, kind of boring.
    — Trey Williams, Fortune, 27 Feb. 2023
  • The violence is frank, as is the utter lack of nurturing adult figures.
    — Patrick Sauer, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Jan. 2023
  • There was something so alive about his stories and so frank or candid and refreshing.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 4 Apr. 2023

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