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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    "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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    We tacitly agreed that severed heads really wouldn't go with the decor in our hotel rooms.†  (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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    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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    He'd watch a plane gaining altitude after taking off from Sky Harbor and he'd sense an element of catastrophe tacit in the very fact of a flying object filled with people.†  (source)
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    Later as an adult when I heard folks talk of the love/ hate relationship between blacks and Jews I understood it to the bone not because of any outside sociological study, but because of my own experience with Jewish teachers and classmates-some who were truly kind, genuine, and sensitive, others who could not hide their distaste for my black face— people I'd met during my own contacts with the Jewish world, which Mommy tacitly arranged by forcing every one of us to go to predominantly Jewish public schools.†  (source)
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