How to Use blarney in a Sentence

blarney

noun
  • She was charmed by his blarney.
  • Take that incongruity as fair warning for the blarney that lies ahead.
    — Ron Charles, chicagotribune.com, 3 May 2018
  • Breakfast will bring out the blarney in even the groggiest guest.
    — By Brian Melton, star-telegram, 2 Aug. 2017
  • Here are some events in North Texas sure to bring out the blarney in everyone.
    — Kathy Harris, star-telegram, 12 Mar. 2018
  • The scandal cast him instead as a blarney artist, a man so in love with the power of a good story that facts were incidental.
    — Time, 30 Jan. 2020
  • Around the Cedars campus and among the Ross neighbors, Mulligan was known for his blarney, with a joke and a laugh for everyone.
    — Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Nov. 2021
  • Willy’s belief that good connections matter more than skill and that blarney and bluff can substitute for hard work explains a good deal about our current national disorder.
    — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2026
  • The 36-year Senate veteran with a touch of the Irish blarney and the on-message, one-term senator took time to warm to each other.
    — Rob Crilly, Washington Examiner, 19 Mar. 2021
  • One thing, however, that decidedly is not blarney is the Irish love of all things potato, and dishes for the holiday are definitely potato-centric.
    — Orange County Register, 17 Mar. 2017
  • To read his account of the administration’s foreign policy is to yearn for an earlier era of American diplomacy, when blarney about the nation’s omnipotence was not permitted to substitute for realistic prudence.
    — Jacob Heilbrunn, New York Times, 8 Dec. 2017
  • Appropriately enough, the Three Clubs show includes not just tricks and blarney, but a range of performers who would not seem out of place in the Catskills in 1911 — ventriloquists, jugglers, comedians and other magicians.
    — Scott Timberg, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2019
  • These reasons for opposing this vanguard of Warren/Sanders/Harris socialism, for objecting to this doddering culmination of a half-century of hackery and blarney, elicit varying degrees of disqualification and rage-inducement.
    — Jack Fowler, National Review, 30 Oct. 2020

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