Example sentences for: blunt

How can you use “blunt” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • He replied something like this: “Hmm, well, yes, but isn't it a little blunt, a little hostile to call anyone by a bare ethnic noun?

  • Finally the 5' arm of homology was provided by a 4.5 kb Xho I fragment of Hnf3 α genomic DNA that was introduced into a unique Pac1 site (blunt) in the preceding plasmid.

  • Ever since the Norman invasion, people have preferred to use the longer Latinate terms over the blunt Anglo-Saxon words: the general feeling, with some small basis, is that such diction shows a touch of class.

  • I am assuming, as the editor of this dictionary argues, that slang is not just colloquial language, but that it is often aggressively informal, that it doesn't tolerate pretense, that it is often crude, blunt, ribald, egalitarian--in short, very unpretentious and honest language.

  • "One world" now means a single planetary market that can sweep away national policies designed in a simpler era to blunt the market's sharp edges.


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