6 example sentences using point-blank.
Point-blank used in a sentence
Point-blank in a sentence as an adjective
Europeans tell you, point-blank, that they think your idea sucks.
He was asked point-blank by a patient, "I've been reading that with diet and exercise I might be able to reverse my heart disease.
One of the things they train us to do is, if we suspect someone might be considering *******, to ask point-blank: "Are you thinking about hurting yourself.
Point-blank in a sentence as an adverb
Also, everything takes place at what would, even with modern military hardware, be considered point-blank range.
Someone once asked me point-blank at lunch why I wanted to publish an invention/discovery of mine in a research paper, why I didn't just go found a start-up based on it.
The German panzers, with their short 50mm and 75mm guns, could only penetrate the thick armor of the T-34 from point-blank range of 100m or less, but the T-34 could destroy the poorly armored Pz III and Pz IV from up to 1,000m.
Point-blank definitions
characterized by directness in manner or speech; without subtlety or evasion; "blunt talking and straight shooting"; "a blunt New England farmer"; "I gave them my candid opinion"; "forthright criticism"; "a forthright approach to the problem"; "tell me what you think--and you may just as well be frank"; "it is possible to be outspoken without being rude"; "plainspoken and to the point"; "a point-blank accusation"
See also: blunt candid forthright frank free-spoken outspoken plainspoken straight-from-the-shoulder
close enough to go straight to the target; "point-blank range"; "a point-blank shot"
in a direct and unequivocal manner; "I asked him point-blank whether he wanted the job"