Example sentences for: taciturn

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

  • 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.

  • NATO's taciturn official reaction: Bombing won't stop until the Yugoslavs actually withdraw.

  • The terseness, the immense taciturn gravity, makes the note truly Chekhovian.

  • The NYT finds that in his confrontation with DOJ lead attorney David Boies, Gates was "evasive and uninformed, pedantic and taciturn," ( USAT and WSJ also opt for "evasive"), and observes that when confronted with company e-mail he'd authored, he frequently said he did not recognize the messages or recall the circumstances behind them.

  • In Corpus Christi , the disciple characters are thinly sketched versions of familiar clichés: the taciturn hairdresser, the buff male hustler, the yuppie lawyer.


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