taciturn

Example Sentences

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She is as warm and outgoing as he is taciturn and undemonstrative.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026

In 1983, he slipped into the role of a taciturn Texas ranger waging war against an arms dealer in "Lone Wolf McQuade", which provided the template for the cult TV series "Walker, Texas Ranger".

From Barron's • Mar. 20, 2026

Curry was extraordinarily good on the pitch and spectacularly taciturn in the aftermath.

From BBC • Jul. 19, 2025

Seok “Serk” Kang, a taciturn professor at a Michigan university, accepts a year’s appointment at a college in a Japanese town close to Osaka in 1978.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2025

Finally he reached the place where Melquíades used to set up his tent and he found a taciturn Armenian who in Spanish was hawking a syrup to make oneself invisible.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez