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.
• The desire is to change the state of the law without being explicit about that.
  — Hope Reese, Longreads, 18 Dec. 2019
• This is most explicit when the basis of the law is scriptural.
  — Marilynne Robinson, Harper’s Magazine , 20 July 2022
• Thenell said some of the comments are crude and explicit.
  — Noelle Crombie, OregonLive.com, 12 Feb. 2018
• And it’s, again, on the verge of being too explicit in a way.
  — Hanna Lustig, Glamour, 7 Oct. 2022
• He was seen wearing a shirt with an explicit word on it.
  — Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press, 31 Aug. 2023
• 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
• That connection was not explicit when the show first aired.
  — New York Times, 4 Jan. 2022
• Any message that seems to have the explicit goal of getting your phone number.
  — Ashley Stahl, Forbes, 4 June 2021
• But these grow ever more explicit as the series goes on.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 6 Oct. 2020
• The court has been very explicit — history has to be our guide here.
  — Nora Mishanec, SFChronicle.com, 31 Dec. 2020
• Some films were even more explicit about how changing times left some with nowhere left to call home.
  — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 18 Jan. 2021
• The claim is not explicit about whether those claims address one or two coaches.
  — Chris White, The Courier-Journal, 15 May 2018
• The goal of winning the match was still explicit, but there was no input data.
  — Peter Sayer, PCWorld, 24 May 2017
• Mejia can be heard on the video using explicit language and yelling at the officers to get away from him.
  — Taylor Pettaway, San Antonio Express-News, 29 Mar. 2021
• The center also did a broader scan against the most explicit videos in their database.
  — Kate Conger, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2023
• But the nod is not only there, where the reference is explicit.
  — Wesley Morris, New York Times, 30 July 2022
• Alex and Paul’s love scene was more explicit than we’re used to seeing on the show.
  — Emily Longeretta, Variety, 11 Dec. 2023
• That would be on its face incorrect as has been explicit for months.
  — Andrew Mark Miller, Fox News, 5 Nov. 2021
• The men discuss their wives and girlfriends in explicit detail.
  — Abigail Van Buren, Twin Cities, 4 Dec. 2019
• This message was far more explicit on the group’s podcast.
  — Willy Staley, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2022
• But the language: The show is full of explicit words, all ripped from real life.
  — Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2021
• 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
• The store has no explicit theme, but it's grouped in a flurry of categories.
  — Andrew Craft, Fox News, 13 July 2017
• There are not one but two torture scenes, the second of which is pretty explicit.
  — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 19 July 2022
• What is a choice is to make those frameworks explicit and to use them with intent, rather than by default.
  — Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes, 16 June 2022
• The new law makes that explicit permission no longer required.
  — Fox News, 18 Dec. 2019

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024