incommunicative

Example Sentences

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But he was able to communicate with Willis about getting the beloved series to viewers “before the disease rendered him as incommunicative as he is now.”

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 12, 2023

"News of the World," therefore, becomes an adventure featuring a grizzled older man and a young incommunicative child.

From Salon • Dec. 23, 2020

Some parents say the camp has been incommunicative with them as the outbreak spread.

From Slate • Jul. 17, 2020

Jeff Bridges is famously laid-back, but the Bagger found him chill to the point of being incommunicative when she met up with him in Manhattan this month — at least at first.

From New York Times • Jan. 27, 2017

His vivacity had indeed been damped; but even in this respect he was a more acceptable companion than formerly, since his seriousness was neither incommunicative nor sullen.

From Wieland: or, the Transformation, an American Tale by Brown, Charles Brockden