Taciturn

//ˈtæsɪtɜːn//

"Taciturn" in a Sentence (13 examples)

Jason was a taciturn individual, so it was always a real surprise when he said anything.

The English are a taciturn people.

Mary's partner is a taciturn person.

Young Jefferson Hope rode on with his companions, gloomy and taciturn.

The principal was always taciturn.

He is taciturn.

Lincoln himself was taciturn.

His mother, a tall, pale, taciturn woman, died of anaemia, and his father of some uncertain malady.

Mother and I would ride two streetcars to Shaker Heights, where my garrulous Uncle Robert, taciturn Aunt Edna, and irritable teenage cousin Bob would meet us in their Olds 88.

He was singularly taciturn, lisping thickly when he did talk, and stuttering and hesitating in his speech, as though his words moved faster than his mind could follow.

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The two sisters could hardly have been more different, one so boisterous and expressive, the other so taciturn and calm.

We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be handed down to posterity with all the eclat of a proverb.

We spent a lot of time up on the staging of the great furnaces, trying to pick up the tricks of the trade from the taciturn furnacemen who sat around placidly smoking, or chewing twist, and occasionally throwing in more pig iron to the molten white-hot metal.

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