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How to use taciturn in a sentence

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It was okay for boxers of 50 years ago to be taciturn, but today the champion is expected to be an entertainer.
As harrowing as these scenes may be, they fail to excite the same level of discomfort as the taciturn Brady who glares blankly into the audience.
Friends described him as reserved, almost taciturn, but insatiably curious about science and technical processes.
A taciturn man, Olivier still grieves for his son, who was murdered during an attempted car robbery some years before.
This taciturn guy, played by Gerard Butler, melts in the boy's artless presence and starts falling for his mum.
He was seen as an effective leader, despite being taciturn and uncongenial.
We see his taciturn, vocational commitment to the basic rules of storytelling craft.
The taciturn Scot who was known for his pauciloquent manner, was appointed physician-in-chief.
He was a rather taciturn individual who discouraged chatter in the theatre.
This quiet and taciturn man has been as responsible as any individual for the rise in England's fortunes.
He was also taciturn, but enumerated that he wanted a relationship with me.
Our group was a taciturn group of actors from theater, TV, and film, and we didn't even really meet beforehand.
He was conscious of it, but he was a taciturn man and just then he had nothing to say.
That taciturn man with the eyes of a kind wizard has brought about a veritable revolution in gymnastics.
The taciturn landlord, never quite friendly, usually acceptably civil and occasionally helpful, must be a type specially bred to run such places.
He is even more taciturn when he drives, often appearing oblivious to any other presence.
A smart yet taciturn girl, she never complained and she always followed her instructions to the letter.
Indeed, he has the brusque, taciturn manner of a true Montana native, although he was born in San Francisco and raised in the Bay Area.
Anybody who knows him will find more than a grain of truth in the story, for he is one of the most taciturn men in football.
Of their surviving sons, Tilden is a taciturn headcase while Bradley is a sadistic brute who chopped off one of his legs with a chainsaw.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Mr. Furnay called at the Watts place in his town car, driven by a small, dark and taciturn chauffeur named Bivins.
Would you worship the Paphian goddess, the groves of Cyprus are not more taciturn than those of the Temple.
For a colder, more taciturn and discomfortable hostess could not be conceived.
Happily for Lillie she was not taciturn, but a prattler, and by nature a light-hearted one.
The squire was unusually taciturn, Mrs. Hazeldean thoughtful, Mrs. Dale languid and headachy.
While they stand at the window looking at the moon, there enters a lean, well-built, taciturn young man dressed in loden.
As for himself, he was inclined to be taciturn, being little versed in the matters on which the rest discoursed so racily.
Calamity paced up and down the bridge, grim and taciturn as ever, his hands buried in the pockets of his monkey jacket.
Mr. Rochester took breakfast with us in a gloomy old dressing-room, moody and taciturn, unpacified by sleep.
A loquacious advocate is more likely to gain his case than a taciturn one.
Stoical, taciturn, proud of his physical prowess, he found all these qualities incarnated in his white companion.
Both appeared to be about the same age, and both were inflexibly taciturn.
Meg, white-faced and taciturn, went back to Wren's End on Tuesday night.
Slafe was in the bow, customarily taciturn, the crew were busy.
Janzen, for his part, was as taciturn as his friend Bache was garrulous.
Among them, silent and taciturn, squatted five white-robed Arabs, securely bound and under heavy guard.
He talked very little, and seemed all the more mysterious for his taciturn manner.
He soon proved a heavy clog upon the little party, being doltish and taciturn, lazy in the extreme, and a huge feeder.
She was as taciturn as ever, speaking scarcely a half-dozen words.
He was the gaunt, taciturn individual we had seen at the wheel.
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