Sample Sentences forloquacious (auto-selected)
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To her right was Selma, a loquacious Tunisian.† (source)
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Note that a window means your traveling companion may then be stuck next to a spectacularly loquacious bore.† (source)
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People everywhere brag and whimper about the woes of their early years, but nothing can compare with the Irish version: the poverty; the shiftless loquacious alcoholic father; the pious defeated mother moaning by the fire; pompous priests; bullying schoolmasters; the English and the terrible things they did to us for eight hundred long years.† (source)
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Their leader was Ian Woodall, thirty-nine, a loquaCious, mouselike man who relished telling anecdotes about his brave exploits as a military commando behind enemy lines during South Africa's long, brutal conflict with Angola in the 1980s.† (source)
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Bob always had more to say—he was a sociable man—but it was true also that the other farmers always glanced at Daddy when Bob made some pronouncement, as if Daddy should have the last word, and Daddy liked to exude skepticism, which he could do with an assortment of heavings and grunts that made Bob seem loquacious and shallow.† (source)
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Even the loquacious Mrs. Hubbard was unnaturally quiet.† (source)
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But though his lips disdained to address me, his eyes were very loquacious.† (source)
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All these giant trees and boulders of granite seemed intent on making a mystery of the course of this small brook; fearing, perhaps, that, with its never-ceasing loquacity, it should whisper tales out of the heart of the old forest whence it flowed, or mirror its revelations on the smooth surface of a pool.† (source)
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It's not the fault of Canon Mackie that he'll never replace Canon Campbell in my heart; Canon Mackie is warm and kind—and his loquaciousness doesn't offend me.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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"This I know very well, O loquacious Vizier," answered the Prince.† (source)
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The great novelist vibrated between two decanters with the regularity of a pendulum; the famous divine flirted openly with one of the Madame de Staels of the age, who looked daggers at another Corinne, who was amiably satirizing her, after outmaneuvering her in efforts to absorb the profound philosopher, who imbibed tea Johnsonianly and appeared to slumber, the loquacity of the lady rendering speech impossible.† (source)
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I don't recall this loquaciousness from her visit in the U.S., and it feels to me like a delaying tactic, like we are circling around the thing she really wants to do—what we will do—and all these words are like a bridge.† (source)
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Still loquacious.† (source)
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Colonel Scheisskopf gave no indication that he did agree, but General Peckem was already too entranced with his own loquacity to notice.† (source)
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One thing was a puzzle, though: despite Junior's reported loquaciousness, his grandchildren never formed a very clear picture of him.† (source)
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Peter became suddenly loquacious.† (source)
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