Sentence examples for asked bluntly from inspiring English sources

"Who are you?" one woman asked, bluntly.

"Was it meant to be funny?" he asked bluntly.

"Were you having an affair?" he asked bluntly.

General Musharraf, on the other hand, asked bluntly whether the ends justify the means, replied "to an extent, yes".

Every day, I am asked bluntly: "What are you?" I get it from colleagues at work and people who have known me for less than five minutes.

A reader who cited Small Gods, in which "Gods grow when people believe in them", asked bluntly if the author believed in God.

What do you think of me? she asks bluntly.

Many ask bluntly how I managed to dye my hair white and why my eyes move from side to side (a symptom of the condition called nystagmus).

Inside Facebook's headquarters, a red-and-white poster affixed to a wall asks bluntly: "What Could Go Wrong?" Somini Sengupta, of The New York Times, reports that below, in black ink, someone has scrawled in tiny letters: "Everything".

Senator Bob Menendez, Democrat of New Jersey, is a bit tougher on Mr. Dimon, asking bluntly, "Did the hedge morph into Russian roulette?" Mr. Dimon answers, "I can't defend it".

It asks bluntly: "In which parade would you want your son to take part?" Outside, beneath a balcony of Russian and Donbass flags, a sound system pumped out a string of schmaltzy Russian disco numbers.