How to Use taciturn in a Sentence

taciturn

adjective

• Check out what the Joes (one more taciturn than the other) had to say below.
  — Ruth Kinane, EW.com, 5 Jan. 2022
• Professional golfers are a taciturn bunch on the course.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 7 Apr. 2018
• One was taciturn and steady; the other was volatile and virtuosic.
  — New York Times, 5 July 2018
• In their universe, even Superman is a bit on the taciturn side.
  — Jesse Hassenger, Chron, 18 Oct. 2022
• Straubel noticed that the normally taciturn Kohler was trying hard not to smile.
  — Joshua Davis, WIRED, 27 Sep. 2010
• For his part, the taciturn Russ recognizes how large a burden has been placed on Wendy.
  — Susan Young, Peoplemag, 12 July 2023
• Somewhere in there are the makings of what passes for a joke in this taciturn country and something very profound about the Finnish people.
  — Stuart Stevens, Outside Online, 11 Dec. 2019
• Forget the logistics and mention the tools, and the normally taciturn Snitker lets down his guard.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 29 Sep. 2022
• Where Janet is open and vivacious, Colleen is more taciturn.
  — Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2022
• The band’s other member, the drummer Meg White, was taciturn punk muse.
  — Alec Wilkinson, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2017
• Patterson, eye black still on his face, was mostly taciturn.
  — Orion Sang, Detroit Free Press, 1 Sep. 2019
• Even the normally taciturn Clarence Thomas was moved to issue a rare public statement.
  — Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker, 27 June 2022
• His younger brother, the shy and taciturn Diego, remained a close companion throughout his life.
  — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 6 June 2018
• The deputy prime minister is taciturn, factual in his answers.
  — WIRED, 25 July 2023
• Photo: Getty Workers who used to take the lead on projects grow taciturn during meetings.
  — Rachel Feintzeig, WSJ, 28 Feb. 2017
• Yep, that’s a solid little wink, drawing a smile out of the normally taciturn deGrom.
  — Jon Tayler, SI.com, 10 Sep. 2019
• The taciturn locals still flock to Meridy's cafe, where the buffet still groans under the weight of home-fried chicken, ham and beans, and corn bread.
  — David Von Drehle | Opinion, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Feb. 2018
• The restaurant will mimic the design and operations of the original—does that mean taciturn waiters in bowties?—and still plans to serve that extra thick cut bacon.
  — Laura Dannen Redman, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 July 2018
• The taciturn beasts have also locally wiped out tasty plants such as the quandong, a delicious fruit in the sandalwood family.
  — Bill Hatcher, National Geographic, 6 Oct. 2017
• And the pragmatic, utterly ruthless Chase is a good showcase role for Bridges at the more taciturn end of his late-career range.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 14 June 2022
• The two bring out the best in each other as Statham plays a suitably taciturn and brutally capable armored truck driver called H.
  — Mark Olsen Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2021
• Metcalf delivered it to the taciturn prostitute played by Headly.
  — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 9 June 2017
• So ultimately, Air winds up being a movie about how a taciturn man who loved his mom wound up earning millions of dollars a year in passive income.
  — Vulture, 4 Apr. 2023
• The taciturn McConnell is often reluctant to discuss his private life.
  — CBS News, 9 Mar. 2023
• Fox, the code name of a taciturn soldier who turned up for treatment along with Flint, prefers to walk alongside the chestnut mare, Gesha, rather than ride her.
  — Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Nov. 2023
• Traveling photographer Pedro is a drawn, taciturn type, who prefers to let his camera do the talking.
  — Guy Lodge, Variety, 6 Dec. 2021
• But McFaden said the acting chief quickly became taciturn.
  — jsonline.com, 19 Feb. 2021
• Syracuse’s Jim Boeheim, by contrast, is dry and taciturn.
  — Tom Perrotta, WSJ, 1 Apr. 2018
• Speaking over Zoom from Kyiv, Kamyshin is taciturn, with a ready supply of one-liners.
  — WIRED, 24 Feb. 2023
• Hess’ singing voice wants more breath support, and Richardson doesn’t mine much range in Robert’s attempt to paint himself as a taciturn cowboy.
  — Lily Janiak, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Apr. 2018

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024