Example sentences for: tacit

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

  • In 1900 the Legation Quarter was attacked by the Boxers, a radical nationalist group that had the tacit support of the Qing court.

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

  • , the Enquirer reports, but royal watchers say the author, Penny Junor, would not have won the cooperation of so many of their friends without the couple's tacit approval.

  • And the administration is lending tacit support to cities suing gun manufacturers, a backdoor way to have the courts make gun policy without going through Congress.

  • There was a tacit understanding that FDNY personnel would have primary responsibility for evacuating civilians who were above the ground floors of the Twin Towers, while NYPD and PAPD personnel would be in charge of evacuating civilians from the WTC complex once they reached ground level.


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