Example sentences for: taciturn

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

  • As the taciturn protagonist of vigilante pictures, Eastwood could be a hoot, and his struggle to articulate something clearly beyond his range resulted in the one true multidimensional performance of his career: the aging Secret Service agent of In The Line of Fire (1993).

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

  • Drinking bouts were long, taciturn, and ended in somnolence.

  • Jack O'Rourke, who saw Mr. Shawn nearly every day from his cart outside the New Yorker offices, remembers him as a cold, taciturn man, who rarely said more than, "A bag of nuts, please," or "I think I'll have some of those tasty nuts."

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


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