How To Use Blarney In A Sentence
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Granted, the casual observer may dismiss this as impenetrable blarney.
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And this is where the romantic blarney comes in.
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Although he possesses none of the blarney and bluster of his southern Irish contemporaries, the humour is droll, earthy and occasionally laugh-out-loud.
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You'll hear some blarney, but you'll also get a picture of the center that seems pretty true to my sense of it.
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That night in the pub, Sean's blarney is on top form.
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Then we argued among ourselves, coaxed, blarneyed, persuaded, and tried to bribe one another.
The Ivory Trail
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A little group round Schilsky blarneyed and expostulated.
Maurice Guest
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There are the old women flower sellers searching for the cheapest blossoms that with their blarney must earn them their livelihood.
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The old woman's mirror told her that she was getting thin, that the work she had undertaken was too hard for her, and sometimes when the men drove in from the village with supplies (and the Poor Boy hid himself) she blarneyed them into lending a hand here and there.
If You Touch Them They Vanish
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Would you believe that, in the spring after the book was published, a disreputable-looking vagabond with a knapsack, who turned up one day, blarneyed Andrew about his book and stayed overnight, announced himself at breakfast as a leading New York publisher?
Parnassus on Wheels
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Then Liz, coaxed and blarneyed, agreed to start again.
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I listen to the radio, and there is always the Blarney Brothers CD on hand in the cubbyhole as an alternative.
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The character was a rollicking success from day one, a marvellous, surreal, genuinely bizarre mix of whimsy, blarney, satire and violence packaged in outrageously funny plots.
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There's probably a wee bit of Irish blarney in that tale - but it's what helps make him a great tour guide.
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Don't listen to any of his blarney!
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It's a role that comes with certain duties, chief among them to keep the blarney coming until the lights go down.
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Like all American real-estate ventures since colonial days, it's a mixture of vision, business, and blarney.
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The Irish have a perfect word to describe what's happening in Ulster - 'blarney'.
Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?
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There was a great deal of blarney spoken about the chances of Irish horses, some of it nonsense and some of it all too true.
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He gave a speech on his new charity work, and it was one of those smooth unctuous bits of California blarney no one could make with a straight face today.
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I cut through the blarney at the fair to ask a cross-section of tourists who consider themselves aficionados of all things Celtic if they had heard of St Andrew.
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The person who prefers his brand of bilious blarney is probably wondering why this wonderful set wasn't simultaneously released on DVD as well.
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Be sure to pay a visit to the cliffs at Old Head of Kinsale as you head out, but beware - their vertiginous drop will put Blarney Castle in the shade.
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Without any influence whatever, save his pleasing address and his wide education, he blarneyed the State
The Goose Girl
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At least one Irish blogger, Suzy Byrne, stepped forward to call blarney on that:
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
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Though he let his natural blarney take him into areas where he should not have gone, there was nothing I could see which was illegal or suggested that he was up to no good.
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Usually the expression blarney is applied to flattery designed to gain a favor.
Blarney Stone
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At least it would have been a rejection of grown-ups ' blarney.
THE INNOCENTS AT HOME (A SUPERINTENDENT KENWORTHY NOVEL)
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In my own experience, I've found that love, and humor, and forgivenessthe twin blessings of compassion and blarney -- are all pretty effective at enabling a person to find a sense of solace.
Jennifer Finney Boylan discusses "I'm Looking Through You"
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There's a difference between artful blarney and honest feedback that's worth being aware of.
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It seems so unfair that he should also have blarneyed his way to getting the fame and the girl and the money all in one sitting.
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Instead it's always the ‘political’ ones that get the camera, the haranguers and culture-warriors with the blarney touch, able to motivate viewers' emotions with their words.
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With his astonishing mix of blarney and brilliance, personal empathy and political calculation, he could have walked off the pages of a southern novel.
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The self-financed record gained unexpected wings from an old Irish charmer, the king of breakfast blarney on the radio.
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There is an absence of celebrity backers on the pro side - but there is the fast-talking Irishman driving the Scottish bid team with charm, blarney and bundles of enthusiasm.
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Now to return to the youth in the corner: _Nemo mortalium omnibus horis sapit_, Jemmy keep your money, or give it to the priest to keep, and it will be safest; but by no means let the Hyblean honey of the schoolmaster's blarney deprive you of it, otherwise it will be a _vale, vale, longum vale_ between you.
The Poor Scholar Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three
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Granted, the casual observer may dismiss this as impenetrable blarney.
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Just as his Irish father has a bit of the blarney in him, so does he like to talk, too much in fact for his own good.
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Evidently Trooper O'Connell during the past twenty-four hours had foraged or blarneyed most successfully for out of the knapsack which he had left behind Morrison suddenly produced a small earthenware jam jar in which was something now indubitably liquid in form but none the less sweet, yellow, appetizing butter.
The Littlest Rebel
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Many supporters have been fooled into thinking the senator was as green as the hills of Kerry but, as it turns out, his Irish ancestry is a load of blarney.
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No doubt his blarney was a source of inspiration for me.
Riding Rockets
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By unhygienically kissing the Blarney stone, you can obtain the gift of ‘persuasive eloquence’, and I hope that is all you obtain.
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Right now you're either dazzling the general populace with brilliance or charming them with blarney.
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Don't ye mind the time the trusters had planned to give us all paint-boxes for Christmas, an 'half of us not able to hold a brush, let alone paint things, an' Miss Peggie blarneyed them round into givin 'us books?
The Primrose Ring
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To dismiss this work as simple blarney seems extreme.
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anyone who kisses the 'Blarney stone' is given the gift of speaking persuasively .
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Yankee-Gentile and Jew, and his blarney was a commodity that stood him in good stead.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen
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`You see how the combination of the Blarney and the English smooth-talk baffles intelligence.
THE FIVE MILLION DOLLAR PRINCE
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‘You're full of blarney boy,’ she said with an affectionate pat on the top of his head.
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At least it would have been a rejection of grown-ups ' blarney.
THE INNOCENTS AT HOME (A SUPERINTENDENT KENWORTHY NOVEL)
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There was quite a bit of the old blarney left in this extremely complicated New Englandy-Irish lady yet.
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That was a load of blarney probably told to her by one of his many enemies to give yet another person reason to kill him.
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He was brilliantly convincing with a strong Irish brogue, righteous indignation when confronted with the insignificance of his rumours, and disarming blarney.
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I blarneyed a bit, giving a delicate impression of being in the trade myself, with a client for the empty shop.
In The Frame
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He would have much more to be cheerful about and before we knew it he would be full of the blarney, not to mention the Guinness.
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It's unfortunate, however, that he has to rely on jaded Irish clichés of booze and blarney to enliven a story that is powerful enough to survive on its own merits.
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Amid the usual blarney about fitness tests and winning the flag for the crew, it was quite refreshing, really.
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Disguised first as a horse dealer and later as a holy man, he successfully blarneyed his way through regions, which were not a part of British-held India at the time.
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Did we overlook when you "jawboned" the medical establishment (with private, sweetheart deals) or when top aides, invariably representing the "fortunate few," offered blarney but no job creation to "hardworking people" no longer working, hard or otherwise.
The Smirking Chimp - News And Commentary from the Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy
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Anything would have been better than the echoes of the sprightliness at the lower end of the table, where Ulick was talking what he would have called blarney to Miss Susan Northover and Miss Mary Anne
The Young Step-Mother
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I can imagine other readers who would find it more profound than I do, as well as those who might dismiss it out of hand as just more self-indulgent blarney.
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As we walked back to the car the Blarney guy drove by and beeped his horn, then turned around and went back the other way, beeping his horn at me again.
Blarney Castle, Ireland « Colleen Anderson
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Five minutes later, after blarneying the cab driver that this is not what we wanted, we got him to drive to Hard Rock instead.
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There was bluster, bluff, and blarney, with everybody trying to talk over everybody else.
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Certainly, for a man short on blarney and long on awkward reflection, his future plans come as something of a surprise.
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the Irish have a penchant for blarney
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I want none of your blarney.
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My brother, a software writer who had no business here except to root for me, had somehow blarneyed his way into the exclusive zone.
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Trust the Irish to give it to you straight, with no blarney, when it's something as important as drink.
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He had blarneyed the Jaguar driver into taking him along.
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My grandfather was an Irishman, full of blarney.
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I last saw Peggy in late July and she was as enthusiastic as ever - full of that Irish blarney that saw her through her life.
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I would definitely pick Blarney Stone over this burger… although the la cense bun is much better than the B.S. bun.
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This sweet, straightforward story has enough Irish charm to overcome the occasional blarney.
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The world, for its part, has begun to see what lies underneath the blarney.
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I want none of your blarney.
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So he blarneyed his way into flight school and a couple of years later flew night missions over Vietnam in an F-4.