Sample Sentences for
taciturn
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    Only old Benjamin was much the same as ever, except for being a little grayer about the muzzle, and, since Boxer's death, more morose and taciturn than ever.  (source)
    taciturn = quiet
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    Max was puzzled by the goblin's taciturn mood.  (source)
    taciturn = quiet (uncommunicative)
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    "Baseball," Cesar responded, hoping to elicit a smile from the taciturn official.  (source)
    taciturn = reserved and uncommunicative
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    As the date of their departure back to Hogwarts drew nearer, he became more and more prone to what Mrs. Weasley called 'fits of the sullens', in which he would become taciturn and grumpy, often withdrawing to Buckbeak's room for hours at a time.  (source)
    taciturn = reserved and uncommunicative
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    The natural New England taciturnity reaches its glorious perfection at breakfast.  (source)
    taciturnity = with a tendency to be reserved and not to talk
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    By far the greatest part of his work is careful observation and precise thinking. That is why mechanics sometimes seem so taciturn and withdrawn when performing tests.  (source)
    taciturn = reserved and uncommunicative
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    And the German, roused from his taciturnity, turned to Vronsky.  (source)
    taciturnity = reserve and reticence (tendency not to communicate)
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    ...but when he left the village, for days or years at a time, nobody knew where he went or what he did, and when he returned he was more taciturn than ever and none dared ask.  (source)
    taciturn = reserved and uncommunicative
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    He recalled his mother's growing taciturnity  (source)
    taciturnity = with a tendency to be reserved and not to talk
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    They returned to their meals in the taciturn presence of Garrow.  (source)
    taciturn = reserved and uncommunicative
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    Odd it was, as Miss Kilman stood there (and stand she did, with the power and taciturnity of some prehistoric monster armoured for primeval warfare), how, second by second, the idea of her diminished, how hatred (which was for ideas, not people) crumbled, how she lost her malignity, her size, became second by second merely Miss Kilman, in a mackintosh, whom Heaven knows Clarissa would have liked to help.†  (source)
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    The engineer is a taciturn, pungent man named Walter Bernd whose pupils are misaligned.†  (source)
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    The youth, inexperience, and taciturnity of Alice Trask all turned out to be assets for Cyrus.  (source)
    taciturnity = reserve and reticence (tendency not to communicate)
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