Sample sentences for EXPLICIT - verbalworkout.com

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1 —as in:
explicit instructions

Definition

clear and with enough detail so there is no confusion

explicit = precisely and clearly expressed

Other Uses (with this meaning)

explicit = precise and clear

The terrorist Ayman Al-Zawahiri is [was] explicit about Al Qaeda's "right to kill four million Americans..."
John R. Bolton -- American Justice and the International Criminal Court -- http://www.aei.org/publications/pubID.22883/pub_detail.asp (retrieved 06/29/06)
In my admission letter from Duke it actually explicitly says that they won't take me if I get arrested.
John Green -- Paper Towns

explicitly = clearly and specifically

explicit = clear

There was no rule explicitly forbidding exercise at such an hour, but it was not expected; ordinarily therefore Mr. Ludsbury would have disapproved.
John Knowles -- A Separate Peace

explicitly = clearly and specifically

"A lady might not like a man," Mrs. Liddell said, "but she shouldn't show it so explicitly as you do."
Frank Beddor -- The Looking Glass Wars

explicitly = clearly

The lawyer never explicitly encouraged dishonesty, but he did make it clear that what I said would either increase or decrease the odds that Mom spent additional time in prison.
J.D. Vance -- Hillbilly Elegy

explicitly = specifically (in exact words)

I think of myself as an obedient woman; up until this time I'd generally done the things told to me by Mother, or Mameha, or even Hatsumomo when I'd had no other choice; but I felt such a combination of anger at Mother and longing for Yasuda-san that I made up my mind right then to do the very thing Mother had ordered me most explicitly not to do.
Arthur Golden -- Memoirs of a Geisha

explicitly = clearly

I had told them that I should not return until the morning, and had given them explicit orders not to stir from the house.
Edgar Allan Poe -- The Cask of Amontillado

explicit = clear

2 —as in:
explicit photos and pornography

Definition

expressing or displaying sexual activity or violence in a detailed manner

explicit = expressing or displaying sexual activity or nudity in a manner that leaves little to the imagination

Other Uses (with this meaning)

explicit = expressing or displaying sexual activity or nudity in a manner that leaves little to the imagination

Almost inevitably, his reveries of reunion with her ended in explicit acts of love-making.
Joseph Heller -- Catch-22

explicit = detailed sexual activity

Overly explicit. A man or a woman who is a medium or a wizard shall be put to death; they shall be stoned with stones, their blood shall be upon them.
Stieg Larsson -- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

explicit = expressing violence in a detailed manner

He stood aloof, because he wished to avoid suggesting himself as a subject for the Squire's fatherly jokes in connection with matrimony and Miss Nancy Lammeter's beauty, which were likely to become more and more explicit.
George Eliot -- Silas Marner

explicit = expressing sexual activity in a detailed manner

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