taciturn
Example Sentences
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Yet consistency over 17 seasons — 15 with the Angels and one each with the Dodgers and Atlanta Braves — was the hallmark of the taciturn left fielder.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026
Many of the AI country tunes tap into the genre's archetype of the lone cowboy: a rugged, taciturn, plain-spoken man who, above all, refuses to apologize for simply existing.
From Barron's • Apr. 7, 2026
She is as warm and outgoing as he is taciturn and undemonstrative.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026
Anyone who likes this kind of pulp knows these avenging angel characters are more or less the same: intense, taciturn, minimalist.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2025
One is a taciturn doughy man with blond hair and a mustache, who I don’t much like.
From "If I Stay" by Gayle Forman
Vocabulary lists containing taciturn
To Kill a Mockingbird
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Animal Farm
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Grade 10, List 3
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