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Six example sentences with taciturn, each labelled with its topic.
The western's hero is taciturn to the point of comedy, answering four questions in two hours and dominating every scene.
Movies
Their taciturn finance director answered analysts in single sentences, which the market read as either discipline or evasion.
Business
Melville's Bartleby is famously taciturn, offering one short phrase in place of every explanation anyone asks of him.
Literature
The taciturn coach gives postgame interviews of three sentences, and reporters have learned to count them as a good night.
Basketball
Coolidge was so taciturn that when a dinner guest bet she could get three words out of him, he replied with only two.
Politics
The taciturn chef communicates with nods and a raised eyebrow, and the whole kitchen has learned to read both.
Cooking
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