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

adjective

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

adjective

close enough to go straight to the target; "point-blank range"; "a point-blank shot"

adverb

in a direct and unequivocal manner; "I asked him point-blank whether he wanted the job"