Example sentences for: tacit

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

  • There is a whole range of behaviors which are sexually ambiguous to a certain extent, almost by definition, a fact which is reflected in expressions like to ask for a date or to express an interest in someone, where the sexual interest is tacit, but not explict.

  • (I'm back in New York this week, and one of my favorite things about returning here is the careful division of labor among the city's newspapers: They seem to have a tacit understanding that the Times will supply the city with its news, and the tabloids will supply those things that people actually want to read about.

  • A few years ago they went after Barney because he could fly, and because he taught kids about the powers of the imagination (in their crusade they had the tacit support of parents across America, who are fully prepared to believe that the purple dinosaur is the instrument of Satan).

  • So long as minorities strike a pose of diasporan dispossession, they give tacit approval to a notion of "prior" Americanness that excludes them.

  • She would be in the same spot as many members of the press and public, who thought that Clinton had made a tacit agreement to quit fooling around for the duration of his presidency, for the sake of common sense if not common decency.


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