Example sentences for: taciturn

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

  • Volpes ( volpe fox) were cunning, Orsinos ( orso bear) lumbering, Manzos ( manzo bullock) taciturn, Botolinos ( botolo snapping cur) irascible, Cagnas ( cagna bitch) surly, and Buffas ( buffa Sicilian dialect for toad) detestable.

  • After an appropriate period of time, some sort of taciturn group decision would be made on whether or not the boats would go out that morning.

  • In the case of Bob Dole, afflicted reporters repeat the well-grooved narrative of his Wound, Recovery, New Sensitivity, because it makes for a good and easy story--and because it fits with their line that the formerly taciturn/stoic, mean/hatchet-wielding Dole has evolved, even when the record shows that he's been a serial blubberer since the '70s and, despite the tears, is just as mean as ever.

  • So taciturn in public, Bird was the NBA's most notorious trash talker, mocking opponents' attempts to guard him.

  • He's especially evocative on the three "spaghetti Westerns" that Eastwood made with Sergio Leone, for whom the actor forged his amusingly taciturn on-screen persona.


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