How to Use taciturn in a Sentence

taciturn

adjective
  • Her clients can be taciturn and slow to impart trust.
    — Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
  • Workers who used to take the lead on projects grow taciturn during meetings.
    — Rachel Feintzeig, WSJ, 28 Feb. 2017
  • Check out what the Joes (one more taciturn than the other) had to say below.
    — Ruth Kinane, EW.com, 5 Jan. 2022
  • Patrick was a rangy, taciturn boy, who tended to shy away from confrontation.
    — Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 28 Jan. 2024
  • One was taciturn and steady; the other was volatile and virtuosic.
    — New York Times, 5 July 2018
  • Think Rambo but even more taciturn.
    — Liam Denning, Bloomberg, 12 Mar. 2026
  • In their universe, even Superman is a bit on the taciturn side.
    — Jesse Hassenger, Chron, 18 Oct. 2022
  • But, at times, Lasher is more taciturn than some of the politicians who have endorsed him.
    — Naaman Zhou, New Yorker, 22 June 2026
  • But his shy, taciturn sisters had somehow surpassed him.
    — Literary Hub, 12 May 2026
  • For his part, the taciturn Russ recognizes how large a burden has been placed on Wendy.
    — Susan Young, Peoplemag, 12 July 2023
  • Straubel noticed that the normally taciturn Kohler was trying hard not to smile.
    — Joshua Davis, WIRED, 27 Sep. 2010
  • At the first dinner party, George is taciturn behind his thick black glasses.
    — Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 12 Mar. 2025
  • But so is Smoke, though Jordan gives him a taciturn tenderness.
    — Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 18 Apr. 2025
  • The band’s other member, the drummer Meg White, was taciturn punk muse.
    — Alec Wilkinson, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2017
  • Gray Alys recruits the taciturn Boyce to be her guide through the treacherous region.
    — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Mar. 2025
  • His younger brother, the shy and taciturn Diego, remained a close companion throughout his life.
    — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 6 June 2018
  • Speaking over Zoom from Kyiv, Kamyshin is taciturn, with a ready supply of one-liners.
    — WIRED, 24 Feb. 2023
  • That presents her with a new problem — the groom's taciturn best man, Griffin, who will stop at nothing to make sure the wedding happens.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker Published, EW.com, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Todd's second-ever screen role foretold his future prominence, as the taciturn Sgt.
    — Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 16 Sep. 2025
  • So the outgoing trio, best friends off the field, expanded their group to include their taciturn teammate while doing their best to draw her out.
    — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 13 Aug. 2024
  • His character is taciturn, a mountain of a man who seems both fully controlled and ready to erupt, and Cage keeps you on your toes the whole way.
    — Alissa Wilkinson, New York Times, 2 May 2025
  • Yep, that’s a solid little wink, drawing a smile out of the normally taciturn deGrom.
    — Jon Tayler, SI.com, 10 Sep. 2019
  • Even the normally taciturn Clarence Thomas was moved to issue a rare public statement.
    — Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker, 27 June 2022
  • Somewhere in there are the makings of what passes for a joke in this taciturn country and something very profound about the Finnish people.
    — Stuart Stevens, Outside Online, 11 Dec. 2019
  • Forget the logistics and mention the tools, and the normally taciturn Snitker lets down his guard.
    — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 29 Sep. 2022
  • The taciturn 21 Savage, though, is having a hard time adjusting.
    — Gail Mitchell, Billboard, 11 Apr. 2019
  • Duncan Simmons is a very taciturn, contemplative 16-year-old who's been through a lot.
    — Ross Guidotti, CBS News, 31 Jan. 2026
  • Hess’ singing voice wants more breath support, and Richardson doesn’t mine much range in Robert’s attempt to paint himself as a taciturn cowboy.
    — Lily Janiak, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Apr. 2018
  • Joseph, taciturn, with an angular face and the shadow of a mustache, was a commander in his father’s military.
    — Nicolas Niarchos, Vanity Fair, 20 Feb. 2026
  • And David's always taciturn father, Avishay, 63, has grown even more silent as the days without his younger son have turned into weeks.
    — Richard Engel, NBC News, 3 Nov. 2023

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