close-lipped
Example Sentences
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Yet Republicans are close-lipped when it comes to unnecessary deaths from the coronavirus.
From Washington Post
Sometimes I make excuses not to go, though more often I sit through the allotted 45 minutes my father’s free account grants, and stare at the four glowing boxes of my family members with my close-lipped smile.
From The Guardian
As close-lipped as the Monterey Five have been about being accomplices to murder, Big Little Lies, a dark comedy of manners and satire of elitist parenting, is equally silent on the subject of both whiteness and nonwhiteness.
From Slate
Sports would be pretty boring if everyone was as close-lipped.
From Washington Times
We have three sons, 16, 14 and 12, none of them big talkers, but this one is particularly close-lipped.
From Seattle Times
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