Example sentences for: tacit

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

  • (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.

  • 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 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.

  • They'd broken a kind of tacit agreement about behavior among rich people, the people who would never drive anything but a station wagon, and they had to be made to pay.

  • A curious aspect of RP was (or is) its continual shifting: as soon as some of its characteristics are adopted by speakers of a different social or educational class, RP speakers, by consent that could scarcely be tacit, change the rules of the game, coming up with shootin' and huntin'.


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