How to Use explicit in a Sentence

explicit

adjective

• The law is very explicit about how these measures should be enacted.
• Changes to the property can't be done without their explicit consent.
• The movie contains scenes of explicit violence.
• They were given explicit instructions.
• Not all of that was as explicit on the page.
  — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 15 May 2026
• His lyrics are very explicit in the song.
  — Lucas Villa, Rolling Stone, 28 May 2026
• Those didn’t count as explicit promises that could bind the city.
  — Marianne Pizzitola, New York Daily News, 14 July 2025
• That was almost quite a bit more explicit.
  — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 10 Feb. 2026
• Carl couldn’t, or perhaps didn’t want to be explicit.
  — Andreas Kluth, Mercury News, 28 Feb. 2026
• Some films were even more explicit about how changing times left some with nowhere left to call home.
  — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 18 July 2025
• That would be on its face incorrect as has been explicit for months.
  — Andrew Mark Miller, Fox News, 5 Nov. 2021
• This is most explicit when the basis of the law is scriptural.
  — Marilynne Robinson, Harper’s Magazine , 20 July 2022
• The court has been very explicit — history has to be our guide here.
  — Nora Mishanec, SFChronicle.com, 31 Dec. 2020
• The claim is not explicit about whether those claims address one or two coaches.
  — Chris White, The Courier-Journal, 15 May 2018
• In a robot like Shakey, the map is explicit.
  — Big Think, 4 Nov. 2025
• The rest of her work, though highly charged, is never so explicit.
  — Sasha Weiss Sasha Weiss Photographs By Justin French Nick Haramis Photographs By Lise Sarfati Styled By Suzanne Koller Adam Bradley Photographs By D’angelo Lovell Williams Styled By Ian Bradley Susan Dominus Photographs By Luis Alberto Rodriguez Styled By Charlotte Collet, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2022
• Trump has made no explicit commitment to go that far.
  — John Irish, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2025
• It was done in a way that was not explicit, even to some of the people that were working on it.
  — Shirin Ghaffary, Recode, 21 Nov. 2018
• Instead that profile spends more time on the film’s explicit scenes.
  — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 29 Nov. 2024
• Alex and Paul’s love scene was more explicit than we’re used to seeing on the show.
  — Emily Longeretta, Variety, 11 Dec. 2023
• Beware that the language in the video is explicit.
  — Tanya Wildt, Freep.com, 19 Sep. 2025
• The desire is to change the state of the law without being explicit about that.
  — Hope Reese, Longreads, 18 Dec. 2019
• The goal of winning the match was still explicit, but there was no input data.
  — Peter Sayer, PCWorld, 24 May 2017
• Any message that seems to have the explicit goal of getting your phone number.
  — Ashley Stahl, Forbes, 4 June 2021
• There are not one but two torture scenes, the second of which is pretty explicit.
  — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 19 July 2022
• That could be putting explicit limitations on what the fund could go to.
  — Dana Taylor, USA Today, 2 June 2026
• Homer at his most explicit can be unnerving.
  — David Denby, New Yorker, 21 June 2026
• The store has no explicit theme, but it's grouped in a flurry of categories.
  — Andrew Craft, Fox News, 13 July 2017
• There’s no need to get explicit about this, but the only thing like slavery is slavery.
  — Roy Bragg, San Antonio Express-News, 29 Mar. 2018
• But the nod is not only there, where the reference is explicit.
  — Wesley Morris, New York Times, 30 July 2022