Like a used pencil

Usage examples of blunt.

It may be added that, as being himself a blunt and downright Englishman, unaccustomed to conceal the slightest movement either of love or of dislike, he accounted the fair-spoken courtesy which the Scots had learned, either from imitation of their frequent allies, the French, or which might have arisen from their own proud and reserved character, as a false and astucious mark of the most dangerous designs against their neighbours, over whom he believed, with genuine English confidence, they could, by fair manhood, never obtain any advantage.

Instead of stroking his ego about a bardship, it offered a blunt assessment: Give it up and accept being a voyageur.

Such blunt, blatantly sexual words might once have seemed rude to her.

Hand that dealt the blow, and when time blunted the keen edge of her feelings her face became as sweet and mild, though not so lightsome, as before.

Tommen a blunted silver longsword with a leaf-shaped blade, crafted to fit an eight-year-old hand.

Guardsmen walked the walls, and knights and men-at-arms were training with blunted weapons.

The stallions slammed together, the blunted axehead smashed against the scarred blue breastplate.

Whether she was daunted and confused in her own conscience by the outcome, so evil and disastrous, of the reparation to Rogers which she had forced her husband to make, or whether her perceptions had been blunted and darkened by the appeals which Rogers had now used, it would be difficult to say.

That warning had blunted, however slightly, the surge of panic which even the most experienced armsmen must feel under totally unexpected attack.

Even blunted by layers of cloth, the sensation was enough to make his blood pound like thunder through his body.

Just watching it made him feel dizzy and sent dull stabs of light through his head, like blunted knifeblades.

The sleeves of his blunter hid the white rings that marked his own flesh, but the thirty-four years he had spent in the mines were still as sharp and clear in his mind as if they were his present.

The bioshield she wore in her blunter and the stealth fabric from which the jacket was made would hide her heartbeat and body temperature from any standard scannet.

The drab shades of her blunter were almost lost in the false dark that the storm gave grudgingly to the dawn, and the dark iridescent shades of her thin, earth-tone trousers flattened and rippled against her skin like silk.

The thin weathercloth of her trousers repelled the rain, but the thicker blunter did nothing to stop the chill moisture from sliding down her neck.