How to Use laconic in a Sentence

laconic

adjective

• He had a reputation for being laconic.
• Shadow is a laconic character on both the page and screen.
  — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 11 Mar. 2017
• But there's also a rebirth in the fall after the hot, laconic days of summer.
  — David G. Allan, CNN, 22 Sep. 2021
• The athletes are breezy and laconic, the sportswriters awe-struck and serious.
  — Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 10 Dec. 2022
• The soundtrack is fueled by the laconic rock of the era, from Weezer to Oasis.
  — Andrew R. Chow, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2018
• There was only a reminder that this laconic space cowboy/knight is just some guy.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 30 Dec. 2019
• At the end of the day, the [speaking manner] never changed; the laconic humor never changed.
  — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 6 Oct. 2017
• The contemplative nature of the game and the laconic tempo have always been attractive to me.
  — Bruce Jenkins, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Feb. 2023
• The laconic charmer went from sitcom sweetness to blockbuster glory with his low-key sense of humor intact.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 1 July 2022
• ElliQ might suggest jokes to someone who laughs a lot, or keep quieter around a laconic sort.
  — Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2022
• Foster, on the other hand, proved to be a laconic guy who typically keeps his feelings in check.
  — Mary Colurso | [e-mail], al, 26 Jan. 2023
• Tall, laconic, with a penetrating gaze, the man had presence.
  — oregonlive, 8 July 2022
• Lean and laconic, Nesmith seemed the band’s voice of authority.
  — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2021
• Stranded, this laconic young man takes the news in stride, merely walking away with perhaps the false conviction that all will be alright.
  — Manuel Betancourt, Variety, 18 Dec. 2021
• The clinching moment Sunday was as muted as the laconic Johnson.
  — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 15 Nov. 2020
• This train is smaller, and by lunchtime, the passenger count has dwindled to just me and a laconic lady in her sixties with a small wheelie suitcase and a thick book.
  — Brendan Sainsbury, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Apr. 2022
• Its rhetoric may be laconic and folksy, but its fury and its nobility seem distilled from Shakespeare.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2017
• But as secondary lead he’s reduced to being either laconic or heroic.
  — David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Apr. 2023
• Pulled between the sharp Dove and laconic Gilbert, Emmy’s is struggling to find her own voice.
  — Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 June 2022
• Bloom is a fine guitarist and, to his credit, Cooley has both a sweet voice and a lovely sense of that laconic Garfunkel cool.
  — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 21 Nov. 2019
• These tend to be laconic affairs, heavy on technical language, empty of drama.
  — oregonlive, 5 Oct. 2019
• An intense Sapiro makes clear that the laconic Roland’s ostensibly still waters run deep.
  — Mike Fischer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 15 Jan. 2018
• Shepard's Western drawl and laconic presence made him a reluctant movie star, too.
  — Jake Coyle, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 July 2017
• Levi is the stuff of romance hero dreams, a gruff, laconic figure whose grouchy exterior conceals his vulnerable heart.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 22 Feb. 2023
• Not that anything is really mentioned on the menu, unless laconic three-word adjective-noun combos are your jam.
  — Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 14 Dec. 2017
• Judging from his recent clips, the laconic and unemotional McConnell is the true stable genius of our time.
  — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 10 June 2020
• Tall and blond, with a square jaw and charmingly laconic screen persona, Mr. Hurt was suddenly in great demand.
  — Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2022
• In contrast to the laconic German engineer, Shotwell is bold and effervescent.
  — Eric Berger, Wired, 2 Mar. 2021
• Write terse bullet points, click a button, and the AI will transform your laconic input into flowing paragraphs.
  — Tom Simonite, Wired, 18 Oct. 2020
• The voice on tape sounded detached, almost laconic, part of a time capsule describing a bloody day in a forever war that killed untold numbers of combatants and civilians.
  — New York Times, 28 Mar. 2021

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024