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How to use taciturn in a sentence

13 example sentences · adjective

Taciturn means silent; temperamentally untalkative; disinclined to speak. Example: “The two sisters could hardly have been more different, one so boisterous and expressive, the other so taciturn and calm.”

Examples of taciturn by meaning

adjectiveSilent; temperamentally untalkative; disinclined to speak.

  • The two sisters could hardly have been more different, one so boisterous and expressive, the other so taciturn and calm.
  • The statesman Lord Henry Brougham observed in 1845 that his taciturn colleague “uttered fewer words in the course of his life than any man who lived to fourscore years, not at all excepting the monks of La Trappe.”2015, Steve Silberman, chapter 1, in Megan Newman, editor, NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity, New York...

More sentences with taciturn

  • It wasn't until later that we realized that the aforementioned caller and this taciturn man were the same person.From the entry aforementioned
  • He was suspicious, standoffish, taciturn; in a word, hostile.From the entry in a word
  • In the stifling atmosphere of the meat-wagon, Bill attempted conversation with the taciturn guard.2014, David Barry, Willie the Actor, →ISBN. From the entry meat-wagon
  • He was attractive, in a sinister yet compelling way, but taciturn to the point of monosyllabicity.1996, Joan Collins, Infamous, →ISBN, page 113. From the entry monosyllabicity
  • They were used to dealing with either the taciturn Collins or the smoothtalk of Joe Cronin.1991, Glenn Stout, “The Road to Fenway Park”, in Dick Johnson, editor, Ted Williams: A Portrait in Words and Pictures, New York, N.Y.…. From the entry smoothtalk
  • The Secretary of Defense was a taciturn man, given to telegramlike statements.1989, Clive Cussler, Deep Six. From the entry telegramlike
  • Actually, that's exactly what O'Dowd is doing in Get Shorty, presenting a taciturn thug with chewed up charm, a chancer pitching a movie in Hollywood.2018 June 6, Peter Crawley, “Get Shorty: Chris O’Dowd as a chewed-up, charming chancer”, in Irish Times, retrieved 29 Aug 2022. From the entry chancer
  • Then he slept, and with the warmth and humour of his eyes extinguished, his features relapsed into a taciturn mask, ironical, brutal, and cold.1953, Ian Fleming, “The Secret Agent”, in Casino Royale, London: Pan Books, published 1955, page 13. From the entry police positive
  • It came out that this stern, grim, windtanned, rough, seasalted, taciturn sailor of sixtyfive was not only an artist, but a lover as well.1910, Joseph Conrad, The Secret Sharer. From the entry sea-salted
  • Karakozov, however—“being, according to the testimony of his friends, always taciturn, an intense hypochondriac, who wanted, in his sick state, to commit suicide”—did not share these sentiments.2009, Claudia Verhoeven, The Odd Man Karakozov: Imperial Russia, Modernity, and the Birth of Terrorism, Ithaca, N.Y.; London: Cornell…. From the entry tsaricidal
  • So he was being controlled through Jamaica, through a taciturn man who was head of the picture desk on the Daily Gleaner, the famous newspaper of the Caribbean.1953, Ian Fleming, “The Secret Agent”, in Casino Royale, London: Pan Books, published 1955, page 10. From the entry picture desk

Meaning of taciturn

  1. adjective Silent; temperamentally untalkative; disinclined to speak.

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Questions about taciturn in a sentence

How do you use taciturn in a sentence?
Taciturn is used as an adjective. For example: “The two sisters could hardly have been more different, one so boisterous and expressive, the other so taciturn and calm.”
What is a short sentence with taciturn?
“He was suspicious, standoffish, taciturn; in a word, hostile.”
What does taciturn mean?
Taciturn means silent; temperamentally untalkative; disinclined to speak.

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