How to Use be honest/frank in a Sentence

be honest/frank

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• My initial goal was just to give my friends jobs, to be honest.
  — Okla Jones, Essence, 12 June 2023
• Be brave and be honest with yourself about what stays and what goes.
  — Tarot.com, New York Daily News, 8 July 2024
• To be honest with you, that has to do with not drinking as well.
  — Daniela Avila, Peoplemag, 29 Aug. 2023
• But to be honest with you, my kids aren’t packing them in their lunch.
  — Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Feb. 2024
• She and her top staff, which should be honest with both themselves and her.
  — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2023
• To be honest, though, the race the fans were here to see would not be one for the ages.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 21 Nov. 2023
• The last few years haven’t been all that hot for Grace, to be honest.
  — Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 24 Jan. 2024
• To be honest, there are K-pop groups that fight a lot or don’t get along.
  — Kristine Kwak, Rolling Stone, 24 Oct. 2023
• But to dismiss this vice as unique to Trump would not be honest.
  — Yair Rosenberg, The Atlantic, 15 May 2025
• One of these days maybe somebody will be honest and tell the story.
  — Jourdan Rodrigue, The Athletic, 25 Nov. 2024
• And to be honest, these bad boys deserve to be shown off this summer.
  — Katrina Cossey, Parents, 8 July 2025
• As a child, she had been taught to be honest with medical providers.
  — Shoshana Walter, USA TODAY, 11 Dec. 2024
• And, to be frank, that's what really pisses me off about this.
  — Greta Bjornson, People.com, 7 June 2025
• To be frank, none of those options would have been a better fit for the Rams.
  — Dan Perry, Newsweek, 28 Feb. 2025
• Yeah, well, to be honest, the only way to go forward is to do things on your own terms.
  — Jason Pettigrew, SPIN, 7 June 2023
• And this is maybe gonna sound crazy, but that’s been a life-changing thing for me, to be honest with you.
  — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 26 Mar. 2025
• But one or two games are not going to dictate the season, to be honest with you.
  — Gabrielle Starr, Boston Herald, 7 July 2025
• To heal, Marc needs to be honest with himself and those closest to him.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 28 Dec. 2023
• To be honest, creepers weren’t always at the top of my list of concerns.
  — Jenny Borts, Miami Herald, 19 Aug. 2025
• It’s been a surreal year, to be honest… the last couple of years.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 30 Apr. 2025
• My job is to be me, to be honest, and come at it from a point of view that is always with the chef in mind.
  — Katlyn Moncada, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 Feb. 2024
• And to be honest, my hair and I don't always see eye to eye on our career.
  — Andrea Lavinthal, Peoplemag, 24 Jan. 2024
• And back then, the world was, to be honest, not as complicated.
  — Devan Schwartz, Vox, 10 May 2025
• School starts next week, and, to be honest, my family and I are not ready.
  — Katrina Donham, Parents, 19 Aug. 2025
• But in this case, to be frank, this feels a bit more like the kind of odd-couple play that was more in vogue some years ago.
  — Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 7 June 2025
• And at the end of the day, Gina and I like to tell stories that seem to be honest and true to us.
  — Lynette Rice, Deadline, 28 Apr. 2025
• The crowd was roaring, and to see Chloe Kelly’s goal was just breath-taking to be honest.
  — Asif Burhan, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024
• The first few plays, to be honest, weren’t the kind that would make any ESPN highlight reel.
  — Peter Ji, Hartford Courant, 4 Feb. 2025