Example sentences for: laconic

How can you use “laconic” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • McCarthy excels in the laconic, colloquial dialogue of his Texas and New Mexico cowboys, and the untranslated lingo of his Mexican characters generally rings true as well.

  • Only twenty years ago did those now ubiquitous and--depending on how one perceives them-- exuberantly eloquent or infuriatingly laconic logos begin to appear on highway and street signs; in terminals (do kilted Scots or slacks-clad women ever end up in the wrong lavatories?); computer screen displays; and instruction manuals for electr(on)ic gadgetry.

  • Murray's more laconic account is based upon a classical liberal argument: Force is bad; cooperation is good; government is force; ergo, the only legitimate functions of government are to enforce voluntary agreements, and to prevent force and fraud.

  • The retired general talks to almost no journalist other than Woodward, who helped make him a hero in The Commanders . Besides his wife, it turns out the key figure in Powell's decision not to run was his laconic aide-de-camp, Bill Smullen: He laid out all the reasons Powell gave later for why running would have been the wrong move personally.

  • I feel even more deeply for those expectant mothers who, turning a corner on a small Swiss station in search of a public convenience, have been faced by that one brutal, laconic word: Abort!


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