frankly

Example Sentences

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To that end, my own ambition was, frankly, modest: I would eat a proper midday meal.

From Salon

The inquest into Jack's death heard the teenager was "plainly under stress" due to what assistant coroner Bernard Richmond KC described as the "frankly ridiculous hours that members of his troop were expected to work".

From BBC

A Cabinet Office source said: "The fact that selective excerpts are now being resurfaced, almost a decade on, to substantiate vexatious anonymous briefings from disgruntled individuals is frankly unconscionable."

From BBC

Katerina talks frankly about her struggle just to go on living without her husband.

From BBC

“My view at the moment is that some of the sector selling is sensible and discriminate, and some of it is frankly indiscriminate.”

From The Wall Street Journal