Example sentences for: blunt

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

  • combine a black-and-white shot of Dust Bowl farmers, a fertile California tomato field captured by Edward Weston, and a Technicolor Emerald City from The Wizard of Oz . The ironies aren't always as blunt as these, but in general it is tension, not harmony, that governs the arrangements.

  • The cover story on racial profiling by police presents the conventional wisdom: Profiling is a blunt instrument; too many innocents are harassed solely on the basis of race; and profiling poisons the citizenry's relations with police.

  • ..” Perhaps particularly where the noun and adjective are identical in form, if not function, colloquially a blunt noun is invented, such as Dutchman for German (n.)

  • "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.

  • The letters are washed blunt glass which betray no jaggedness.


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