reticent

In a sentence

Six example sentences with reticent, each labelled with its topic.

• The bandleader was reticent about the new album, answering four questions with the same shrug and a half smile.

  Music

• Investors grew uneasy when the founder turned reticent about the missing quarter and let a lawyer answer instead.

  Business

• The reticent sheriff says fourteen words in the whole picture, which is why the final speech lands so hard.

  Movies

• Therapists learn that a reticent client may say more in the last two minutes of a session than in the preceding fifty.

  Psychology

• The senator stayed reticent about her vote until the roll call, and reporters could not read anything from her face.

  Politics

• The reticent rookie answered every postgame question with a nod, then let his thirty points do the rest of the talking.

  Basketball

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