Example sentences for: honest

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

  • The friendship between an honest New York cop (Harrison Ford) and an Irish Republican Army terrorist (Pitt) eschews the "black-and-white formulas" typical of suspense films, says Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly ). The New Yorker 's Terrence Rafferty, on the other hand, finds the premise "an astonishingly banal male-bonding motif."

  • To be honest, I was up until about 4 or 5 a.m., as I am almost every night, watching Space Ghost cartoons in a drugged haze, after seriously pissing off my editor by turning in the week's Onion assignments really, really late.

  • An independent thinker is someone whose views are based on an honest assessment of the facts and arguments.

  • Mike is supposed to be an honest connoisseur of card playing nature, a master whose expertise derives from spotting "tells," from "watching the player, not the cards."

  • On the contrary, they call attention to a truth less honest advisers have preferred to obscure and parents only half want to hear: that child rearing is a messy art of compromise and contradictions, full of uncertainty.


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