How to Use uncommunicative in a Sentence

uncommunicative

adjective
  • Its steering is vague and uncommunicative, though, in the rain at highway speeds.
    — Don Schroeder, Car and Driver, 29 May 2023
  • Some supporters felt their club had become too corporate, too cold and too uncommunicative.
    — Greg O'Keeffe, The Athletic, 20 Dec. 2024
  • Me about uncommunicative guys who lack intent and she about self-sabotaging the nicest guy she’s ever dated.
    — R29 Team, refinery29.com, 2 Sep. 2024
  • Fathers of teenage daughters are often portrayed as distant, uncommunicative, and a victim of their teen's mood swings.
    — Maia Efrem, refinery29.com, 15 June 2019
  • This uncommunicative tendency is virulent in the world of email.
    — Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Aug. 2020
  • The officer was found uncommunicative near railroad tracks, a short distance from his police cruiser.
    — Carol Robinson | [email protected], al.com, 23 July 2019
  • When officers arrived at the house, the sheriff said, Monahan was uncommunicative and would not come out.
    — Ed Shanahan, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Throughout the show, Conrad is forgiven by fans for being uncommunicative and avoidant.
    — Alyssa Goldberg, USA Today, 29 Aug. 2025
  • In the world of football the oriental owners can often be seen as unobtrusive and uncommunicative.
    — SI.com, 12 Sep. 2017
  • Some of these units had a long history of problems, others were uncommunicative, and some functioned well but aspired to collaborate more.
    — Michael P. Leiter, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2015
  • The letter writer resented that one of her friend’s teenage sons was uncommunicative, seemingly rude and wore headphones at joint family dinners.
    — R. Eric Thomas, Denver Post, 13 Apr. 2026
  • The letter writer resented that a friend’s teenage son was uncommunicative, seemingly rude and wore headphones at joint family dinners.
    — R. Eric Thomas, Mercury News, 13 Apr. 2026
  • Most candidates are unprepared and end up being boring, rambling or uncommunicative.
    — Phil Blair, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Aug. 2023
  • Passengers say that rather than trying to accommodate them, the cruise companies have been uncommunicative and unhelpful.
    — Tariro Mzezewa, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2020
  • Her older roommate, Prabha, whose uncommunicative husband now works in Germany, is lonely.
    — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Sep. 2024
  • The result is that Robert spends much of the movie's running time morosely lying on his back, sullenly pondering his fate and being largely uncommunicative.
    — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Apr. 2020
  • Just as importantly, His voice was loud and and clear in marshalling a Chelsea back line that has too often appeared quiet and uncommunicative in his absence this season.
    — Simon Johnson, New York Times, 16 May 2026
  • But the pathologically uncommunicative Wayne never seems all that happy about anything.
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 25 June 2024
  • The man, never named, is uncommunicative, neither sharing much of himself nor seeming interested in getting to know Emerick at any depth.
    — Nancy Lord, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Aug. 2022
  • The steering delivers good highway stability but is dull and uncommunicative on meandering two-lanes.
    — Drew Dorian, Car and Driver, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Sasse was uncommunicative and sometimes unresponsive to the university’s students and staff.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 20 Aug. 2024
  • The captives are separated into three groups and driven to isolated locations; their captors are brutal and uncommunicative.
    — Tom Nolan, WSJ, 13 May 2022
  • Her high-school senior daughter Josie (Chloe East) is terse and uncommunicative with her, angry about how much space her mother’s drama has taken up in everyone else’s life.
    — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 16 Feb. 2026
  • That deadline has since been extended to June 7, but Toho said the property’s management has been uncommunicative and delinquent on payments for months.
    — Katie Rice, orlandosentinel.com, 7 May 2021
  • Staff being uncommunicative with EMS workers.
    — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 7 June 2026
  • Dutifully filing reports to his uncommunicative and far-off superiors, Pascali regards his pay as proof that his work is imperative.
    — Dennis Perkins, EW.com, 5 Apr. 2024
  • Boris, who’s about 10, is sullen and uncommunicative with his mother, making solo trips to the lake near their house to continue practicing the underwater swimming John had been teaching him.
    — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Oct. 2022
  • Whenever Conrad was at his most uncommunicative and avoidant, Jeremiah was waiting in the wings to offer uncomplicated affection and himbo charm.
    — Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Cunanan had been able to evade authorities for nearly three months because his murders in multiple states had been clumsily handled by different, uncommunicative jurisdictions.
    — Joanna Robinson, HWD, 22 Mar. 2018
  • Place’s loving but irresolutely uncommunicative momma sends mixed signals to a daughter who just wants to run around the mall and gawk at boys with her friends, but instead runs into a sinister lothario played by Treat Williams.
    — Nicholas Bell, SPIN, 12 May 2023

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