How to Use frankly in a Sentence

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• You can speak frankly to us.
• And there’s not a lot of room, frankly, to their right.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 20 Apr. 2023
• Which, frankly, is a welcome change for the end of the world.
  — Olivia Truffaut-Wong, refinery29.com, 27 Dec. 2023
• And frankly, that sort of thing now feels more than a bit smug.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 21 Feb. 2024
• And a lot of it, frankly, from the bench feels just like a guessing game.
  — Tami Abdollah, USA TODAY, 7 Dec. 2022
• The Hoosiers were, frankly, lucky to be down just eight, 34-26, at halftime.
  — Zach Osterman, The Indianapolis Star, 11 Mar. 2023
• And, frankly, we're being isolated in the rest of the world.
  — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 29 Oct. 2023
• And, quite frankly, the team hasn’t won enough the last two postseasons.
  — Jim Owczarski, Journal Sentinel, 27 Apr. 2023
• And frankly, that was the most concerning part of it all.
  — Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 Oct. 2022
• This is frankly the kind of thing Netflix could and should do more of.
  — Chris Vognar, Rolling Stone, 17 Feb. 2024
• The Jazz dancers, frankly, have some of the worst choreography in the league.
  — Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 23 Nov. 2022
• Some of that, frankly, has to do with the design of the character.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 6 Oct. 2022
• And quite frankly, many of them turned out to be some of my closest friends.
  — Andrea Kane, CNN, 18 June 2024
• And now, my beat, by the way, is all of Washington, the campaign trail, and, frankly, the world.
  — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 10 Sep. 2023
• And frankly, Cruz’s turn alone is worth the price of admission.
  — Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 31 Aug. 2023
• Nothing about the wiper or, frankly, about the Cybertruck makes much sense.
  — Saahil Desai, The Atlantic, 30 Nov. 2023
• Have people find, frankly, the presence of God in their life.
  — Michelle Boorstein, Washington Post, 26 Mar. 2023
• And frankly, to say more than that almost gives away too much.
  — Marah Eakin, WIRED, 28 Dec. 2022
• The Beaver fan base, and frankly, many in the media, are expecting more in 2023.
  — Ndaschel, oregonlive, 25 July 2023
• The original’s dough was cakey and, frankly, not that deep.
  — Eric Kim, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 May 2024
• The supporting cast has not been there, and, frankly, is old.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 26 Feb. 2023
• And frankly, there was great pushback from allies around the world.
  — WIRED, 16 Mar. 2023
• The feelings we are left with are frankly not suitable to print.
  — Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 19 Jan. 2023
• A lot of it is misogyny, quite frankly, in the guise of defending the virtues of the art.
  — Sam Anderson, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2022
• The timing was wrong, and frankly, the politics were wrong.
  — Mike Baker, New York Times, 1 Apr. 2024
• But that was then, and this is now and quite frankly, the Cardinals appear to be stuck in the mud.
  — Bob McManaman, The Arizona Republic, 26 Apr. 2023
• First, there is an eight-carat oval ring, which frankly is way too big for my taste.
  — Aemilia Madden, Vogue, 30 Mar. 2024
• The best white elephant gifts are things that are, frankly, a little bit cursed.
  — Wilder Davies, Bon Appétit, 15 Dec. 2023
• Even the neck heel is smoothly contoured, with a gorgeously swoopy-looking neck heel carve that's frankly a pity to hide at the back of the instrument; only the fancier Strats get that kind of treatment.
  — New Atlas, 15 Oct. 2024
• In Phillips’s new film, however, their entanglement is rewritten to be even more grim and, frankly, flat (especially Quinn’s arc), but with a lot more singing.
  — Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 4 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 31 Oct 2024