How to Use honest with (someone) in a Sentence

honest with (someone)

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• A lot of this is just hard to deal with, to be honest with you.
  — Billy Witz, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2023
• To be honest with you bro, Afrobeats isn’t even, like, a genre.
  — Nelson C.j., Rolling Stone, 28 June 2023
• The studio was not honest with me in any way, shape or form.
  — Glenn Garner, Peoplemag, 18 Mar. 2023
• To be honest with you, that has to do with not drinking as well.
  — Daniela Avila, Peoplemag, 29 Aug. 2023
• Be honest with them about what their lives could look like.
  — Bryan Washington, The New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2023
• But to be honest with you, my kids aren’t packing them in their lunch.
  — Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Feb. 2024
• Be brave and be honest with yourself about what stays and what goes.
  — Tarot.com, New York Daily News, 8 July 2024
• She and her top staff, which should be honest with both themselves and her.
  — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2023
• To heal, Marc needs to be honest with himself and those closest to him.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 28 Dec. 2023
• But Elton got sober, got honest with himself and did the work to come out on the other side.
  — Karen Bliss, Variety, 7 Sep. 2024
• 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 to be honest with you, it’s actually been a joy for us.
  — Okla Jones, Essence, 7 Nov. 2023
• But filmmakers are scared right now, to be honest with you.
  — Scott Feinberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Dec. 2023
• To be honest with you, Ryland and I both didn't recognize Troye at first in his drag.
  — Lizzie Hyman, Peoplemag, 18 Nov. 2023
• Marsden: To be completely honest with you, that was never in the cards for me.
  — Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2023
• And to be honest with you, my sister, Deidra Dixon, and my daughter, Corinne Marie, saved my life.
  — J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 22 July 2023
• This is a long time coming, to be completely honest with you.
  — Tyler Coates, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 July 2023
• Be honest with them about what would genuinely help you out.
  — Tarot Astrologers, Chicago Tribune, 24 July 2023
• Portal, to be honest with you, was as separation of the team.
  — Tom Murphy, Arkansas Online, 2 Sep. 2023
• The color, to be honest with you, that was a coincidence.
  — Mark Peikert, IndieWire, 5 Oct. 2024
• The first step is being honest with yourself, and that’s a hard exercise.
  — Anusha Praturu, Vulture, 7 Mar. 2023
• Instead of being honest with his three kids, Chris vows to make this Christmas the best one ever.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Nov. 2023
• But to be honest with you, the best way to start your workout journey is to hire a personal trainer.
  — Jane Thier, Fortune, 20 May 2024
• Ross, who’s sporting a broken arm and a scrape on her forehead, tells Knight to spill the story — but the minute Knight’s not honest with her, Ross is out.
  — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 15 Oct. 2024
• Be honest with yourself: If your empathy has run out, what are you left with?
  — Sahaj Kaur Kohli, Washington Post, 11 July 2024
• But really, to be honest with you, the stories are the real treasures.
  — Okla Jones, Essence, 13 Aug. 2023
• But the most important thing is to be honest with your audience.
  — Tere Aguilera, Billboard, 13 Feb. 2024
• Being honest with the press would have helped, but Sunbird refused to take open questions in its big debut.
  — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 14 Nov. 2023
• In other words, your oven isn’t being honest with you about what’s going on inside.
  — Adam Campbell-Schmitt, Bon Appétit, 16 Oct. 2024
• To be honest with you, iconic television that had Black folks in front of the camera, behind the camera, that told the story of an amazing city that is led by Black people today.
  — Ronda Racha Penrice, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 8 Dec 2024