How to Use laconic in a Sentence

laconic

adjective
  • He had a reputation for being laconic.
  • And what did the laconic former catcher say if the ball clanged off a catcher’s mitt?
    — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Oct. 2023
  • There was only a reminder that this laconic space cowboy/knight is just some guy.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 30 Dec. 2019
  • But there's also a rebirth in the fall after the hot, laconic days of summer.
    — David G. Allan, CNN, 22 Sep. 2021
  • ElliQ might suggest jokes to someone who laughs a lot, or keep quieter around a laconic sort.
    — Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2022
  • The athletes are breezy and laconic, the sportswriters awe-struck and serious.
    — Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 10 Dec. 2022
  • At the end of the day, the [speaking manner] never changed; the laconic humor never changed.
    — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 6 Oct. 2017
  • Daynard, a laconic sort who wouldn’t order a hot dog without due process, tasked his staff to study the matter closely.
    — Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Tall, laconic, with a penetrating gaze, the man had presence.
    — oregonlive, 8 July 2022
  • Foster, on the other hand, proved to be a laconic guy who typically keeps his feelings in check.
    — Mary Colurso | [email protected], al, 26 Jan. 2023
  • The laconic charmer went from sitcom sweetness to blockbuster glory with his low-key sense of humor intact.
    — Darren Franich, EW.com, 1 July 2022
  • The soundtrack is fueled by the laconic rock of the era, from Weezer to Oasis.
    — Andrew R. Chow, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2018
  • Its rhetoric may be laconic and folksy, but its fury and its nobility seem distilled from Shakespeare.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2017
  • Lean and laconic, Nesmith seemed the band’s voice of authority.
    — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2021
  • Pulled between the sharp Dove and laconic Gilbert, Emmy’s is struggling to find her own voice.
    — Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 June 2022
  • Stranded, this laconic young man takes the news in stride, merely walking away with perhaps the false conviction that all will be alright.
    — Manuel Betancourt, Variety, 18 Dec. 2021
  • The receding glacier left sandy soil along a laconic Kankakee River.
    — Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 14 Apr. 2025
  • The contemplative nature of the game and the laconic tempo have always been attractive to me.
    — Bruce Jenkins, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Feb. 2023
  • Bloom is a fine guitarist and, to his credit, Cooley has both a sweet voice and a lovely sense of that laconic Garfunkel cool.
    — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 21 Nov. 2019
  • Elba’s character, a laconic gent named Harp, shares his untidy house with a horse, cordoned off in a makeshift living-room stall.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 2 Apr. 2021
  • An intense Sapiro makes clear that the laconic Roland’s ostensibly still waters run deep.
    — Mike Fischer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 15 Jan. 2018
  • This train is smaller, and by lunchtime, the passenger count has dwindled to just me and a laconic lady in her sixties with a small wheelie suitcase and a thick book.
    — Brendan Sainsbury, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Apr. 2022
  • The clinching moment Sunday was as muted as the laconic Johnson.
    — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 15 Nov. 2020
  • What’s changed in the 40 years since Predator is that action heroes can’t be mysterious and laconic any more.
    — Chris Klimek, Vulture, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Jarmusch wrote and directed this story of laconic vampires, creatures who have lived so long and seen so much that the world mostly leaves them apathetic.
    — Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 23 May 2026
  • But Mueller refused to go beyond the four corners of the report and was laconic to a fault, in addition to often not being able to hear questions.
    — Nr Editors, National Review, 25 July 2019
  • Juxtaposed against their laconic back-and-forth, Lin’s breathless, manic sentences betray a grifter’s nonsense.
    — Jonathan Odden, Artforum, 2 June 2026
  • At the beginning of the film, a laconic trucker named Gorō, a Robert Mitchum type in a plaid shirt and cowboy hat, stops for a bite at a dingy roadside ramen shop.
    — Sophie Pinkham, The New York Review of Books, 8 May 2020
  • Someone reported on the radio that the blast had destroyed another Humvee, and had killed Omar Ibrahim, the laconic first lieutenant.
    — Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2017
  • Dialogue tended to be sparse in those movies, too, because people mistrusted language then, and Reichardt also likes her speeches laconic.
    — Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 21 Jan. 2026

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