Sample Sentences for
tacit
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    So I glanced at my wrist watch, brought my hand dramatically to my mouth as though remembering something urgent and important, repeated the pantomime in case anybody had missed it, and with this tacit explanation started briskly back toward the center of the school.  (source)
    tacit = implied, but not expressed directly
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    Jack nodded, as much for the sake of agreeing as anything, and by tacit consent they left the shelter and went toward the bathing pool.  (source)
    tacit = unspoken
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    By tacit consent, they had adopted a plan of campaign.  (source)
    tacit = unspoken but understood
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    The blush that rose to my own cheeks somehow set us both at ease, for it was a tacit answer to her own.  (source)
    tacit = understood, but not expressed directly
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    Nathan disappeared with her most evenings and, although he returned for late duties, we tacitly gave him as much time as possible to enjoy himself.  (source)
    tacitly = without saying anything about it
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    "Miss Neveu," Teabing said, "the Church and the Priory have had a tacit understanding for years."  (source)
    tacit = understood, but not stated directly
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    Not merely the validity of experience, but the very existence of external reality, was tacitly denied by their philosophy.  (source)
    tacitly = indirectly
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    By tacit compact forged only of their flesh, they took no rest.†  (source)
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    We tacitly agreed that severed heads really wouldn't go with the decor in our hotel rooms.†  (source)
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    "Yes, but —" I'd unboxed so much china from funeral sales and broken-up households that there was something almost unspeakably sad about the pristine, gleaming displays, with their tacit assurance that shiny new tableware promised an equally shiny and tragedy-free future.†  (source)
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    Many read the editorial as tacitly encouraging Red Guards to attack military armories and seize weapons from the PLA, further inflaming the local civil wars waged by Red Guard factions.†  (source)
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    Mammachi knew this, but preferred to construe Margaret Kochamma's silence as a tacit acceptance of payment for the favors Mammachi imagined she bestowed on her son.†  (source)
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    Then whoever is persecuting them, and all those who tacitly support this persecution, would realize that to persecute them would mean persecuting at least 10 percent of the population—including their sons, daughters, neighbors and friends—even their own parents.†  (source)
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