Example sentences for: straight-talking

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

  • This rebuttal might have worked, but the debate challenge has thwarted it and has jeopardized Bradley's posture as a straight-talking idealist.

  • In the National Review , William F. Buckley Jr. remembers the private Goldwater, a straight-talking man who loved to fly his plane.

  • Tributes to Barry Goldwater as the last of a breed of terminally straight-talking politicians continue pouring in, but so far, only David Broder's encomium mentions that the late Senator once showed reporters the near-nude and suggestively inscribed photo of herself a woman fan had sent him.

  • I told her to her face, [an aberrant piece of straight-talking, this] Don't you turn round to me and tell me I turned round and accused you of being two-faced.

  • The candidate's tantrums crystallize his reputation as a straight-talking maverick, while relieving him of the need to take specific positions.


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