Sentence examples for it was blunt from inspiring English sources

The phrase "it was blunt" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It typically means that something is not sharp or pointed and therefore not effective or direct. Example: "I tried to cut the paper with the dull scissors, but it was blunt and wouldn't make a clean cut."

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The slowworm must have shed its tail because it was blunt – we know both species do this to distract predators.

But it was blunt in its conclusions: "More needs to be done … to meet the targets that the global partnership set for 2015".

But it was blunt in its conclusions: "More needs to be done … to meet the targets that the global partnership set for 2015". Greening, who co-chairs the GPEDC, is calling on those involved to make sure that the momentum acquired at Busan is not squandered.

It was blunt.

Tsipras rattled his sabre until it was blunt – and for what?

"It was blunt, it was tough," an official said of Mr. Powell's call.

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It was blunted wit, but startling for a commercial carrier.

Agonist induced vasoconstriction was not significantly altered by diabetes in resistance arteries, but it was blunted in conduit vessels.

It's blunt.

It is blunt reality.

It is blunt, angry and indulgent.

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