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Example sentences for "bluntly"

Lexicographically close words:
blunders; blunt; blunted; blunter; blunting; bluntness; blunts; blur; blurr; blurred
  1. But Orgonez bluntly replied, - "It is too late; you have liberated Hernando Pizarro, and nothing remains but to fight him.

  2. This step was opposed by Carbajal, who bluntly told his commander that "he had gone too far to expect favor from the Crown; and that he had better rely for his vindication on his pikes and muskets.

  3. The Spanish commander refused, at first, to credit the unwelcome news, and bluntly told the Inca, that his brother could not be dead, and that he should be answerable for his life.

  4. The viceroy summoned Carbajal to attend him at his palace, late at night; and when conducted to his presence, he bluntly charged him with treason.

  5. And, when he was still further urged by the cavalier, he bluntly broke off the conversation by declaring that "his own territory covered all on this side of Flanders"!

  6. Size of the bird comparitively with those of the Hawk or Eagle, Short and bluntly pointed-- the under Side of the wing is Covered with white down and feathers.

  7. You had informed me you were impressed through General Halleck that I was dissatisfied with you, and I could not bluntly deny that I was without unjustly implicating him.

  8. Lionel himself rode out to Arwenack to ask Sir John Killigrew bluntly if he knew aught of this matter.

  9. He thought of asking his brother bluntly for the key to it, for the precise meaning of his disconcerting statement, but courage failed him.

  10. He returned to Penarrow, and bluntly told Nicholas what Sir John suspected and what he feared himself must be the true reason of Sir Oliver's disappearance.

  11. Bluntly and plainly he showed the people their duty, speaking to them as he had used to speak in the old days to his soldiers.

  12. The surgeon had just finished a careful examination of Martin's wound, and said bluntly that he considered it dangerous, but could not speak with certainty for a day or two.

  13. Meeting Carden shortly after, he asked bluntly whether he knew anything, and related what he had heard, but Carden knew nothing.

  14. Russia was rudely outspoken and menacing: she was told bluntly by Lord Palmerston that it was none of her business.

  15. The spur is central; its end is bluntly pointed.

  16. The spur is rather narrow, and is either (6 d, 6 e) bluntly or sharply pointed.

  17. These striae often affect the internal surface of the basal margin, making it bluntly toothed.

  18. In the less common and narrow variety (1 m), the basal margin in some extreme cases forms very nearly a straight line with the carinal side of the spur; and the spur itself is bluntly pointed: in var.

  19. Tergum, with the spur bluntly or sharply pointed.

  20. The prosoma is pale coloured, extraordinarily elongated, and bluntly pointed; it extends down (see the dotted outline in Pl.

  21. In young specimens the spur is bluntly pointed.

  22. The spur is long and narrow, with the end bluntly pointed, placed at rather above its own width from the basi-scutal angle; the basal margin slopes but little towards the spur: the crests for the depressores are feebly developed.

  23. In fact, he went at times as far the other way, and bluntly declined so to cheapen himself.

  24. When a prospective client was in the wrong he bluntly told him so.

  25. The challenge, so bluntly put, was as bluntly answered.

  26. The first thing he did the next day when he reached St. Louis was to go straight to the Colonel and tell him bluntly of the circumstance.

  27. She had, indeed, once bluntly told him that church meant nothing to her .

  28. Eliphalet said bluntly he would give three and a half.

  29. People who consulted him were at times bluntly advised to withdraw from an unjust or a hard-hearted contention, or were bidden to seek other counsel.

  30. In infucata the snout is bluntly rounded in lateral profile and truncate in dorsal profile, whereas in pseudopuma the snout is more acutely rounded in lateral profile and acuminate in dorsal profile (Fig.

  31. The question was so bluntly put and the man's attitude so impudent that Samson lost his temper and couched his denial in blunt bellicose bad language.

  32. If I had told him bluntly where the treasure is, he would have laughed and forgotten it!

  33. But in the closing year, but one of the century, the situation became intolerable and when the partners met, as was their custom at the Grand Portage, Mackenzie bluntly told his associates that he had resolved to quit the Company.

  34. Murielle knew fully the truth of this, but she felt an increasing emotion of anger at the injustice and control to which she was so bluntly subjected, and now her haughty sister spoke again.

  35. Little more was said between Gabord and myself, but he refused bluntly to carry message or letter to anybody, and bade me not to vex him with petitions.

  36. I called up what looks of candour were possible to me, and told him bluntly that I wished Voban to bear a letter for me to the Seigneur Duvarney's.

  37. I heard afterwards that only one man refused to raise his hand, saying bluntly that his wife was out of slavery with him, and he did not care to fight.

  38. One day she bluntly asked him how he knew what he was doing.


  39. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bluntly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abruptly; briefly; broadly; curtly; directly; frankly; genuinely; harshly; honestly; openly; plainly; roundly; shortly; shoulder