TACITURN in a Sentence
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31 example sentences for TACITURN, such as:
1. All alike were taciturn and morose.
2. Prince Nicholas came in serious and taciturn.
3. Young Jefferson Hope rode on with his companions, gloomy and taciturn.
4. At dinner the prince usually spoke to the taciturn Michael Ivanovich more often than to anyone else.
5. Marya Dmitrievna came back to dinner taciturn and serious, having evidently suffered a defeat at the old prince's.
2. Prince Nicholas came in serious and taciturn.
3. Young Jefferson Hope rode on with his companions, gloomy and taciturn.
4. At dinner the prince usually spoke to the taciturn Michael Ivanovich more often than to anyone else.
5. Marya Dmitrievna came back to dinner taciturn and serious, having evidently suffered a defeat at the old prince's.
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Meanings and Examples of TACITURN
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taciturn
a. habitually reserved and uncommunicative
Classic Sentence: (28 in 2 pages)
1 In temperament he was taciturn rather than loquacious, and he cherished a yearning for self-education.
2 At dinner the prince usually spoke to the taciturn Michael Ivanovich more often than to anyone else.
3 One of the Frenchmen, with the politeness characteristic of his countrymen, addressed the obstinately taciturn Rostov, saying that the latter had probably come to Tilsit to see the Emperor.
4 Prince Nicholas came in serious and taciturn.
5 Marya Dmitrievna came back to dinner taciturn and serious, having evidently suffered a defeat at the old prince's.
6 Involuntarily feeling this at dinner on the first day, he was taciturn, and the old prince noticing this also became morosely dumb and retired to his apartments directly after dinner.
7 All alike were taciturn and morose.
8 The count ordered his carriage that he might drive to Sokolniki, and sat in his study with folded hands, morose, sallow, and taciturn.
9 Young Jefferson Hope rode on with his companions, gloomy and taciturn.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER II. THE FLOWER OF UTAH
Context Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER II. THE FLOWER OF UTAH
10 Only old Benjamin was much the same as ever, except for being a little greyer about the muzzle, and, since Boxer's death, more morose and taciturn than ever.
11 Now he made a third in the gondola, and he bathed with them across the lagoon, and was their escort: a quiet, almost taciturn young man, very advanced in his art.
12 Duncan was a rather short, broad, dark-skinned, taciturn Hamlet of a fellow with straight black hair and a weird Celtic conceit of himself.
13 It is when he is on a scent and is not quite absolutely sure yet that it is the right one that he is most taciturn.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In XI. The Adventure of The Naval Treaty
Context Highlight In XI. The Adventure of The Naval Treaty
14 All that day and the next and the next Holmes was in a mood which his friends would call taciturn, and others morose.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In XIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SECOND STAIN
Context Highlight In XIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SECOND STAIN
15 He appeared a taciturn, and perhaps a proud personage; but he was very kind to me.
Example Sentence:
1 The stereotypical cowboy is a taciturn soul, answering lengthy questions with a "Yep" or "Nope.".
2 No matter what he was asked, the taciturn New Englander answered with a monosyllabic "Yep" or "Nope."
3 The ant is the most industrious animal; however, it is the most taciturn one.