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Example sentences for "uncommunicative"

Lexicographically close words:
uncomfortably; uncomforted; uncommitted; uncommon; uncommonly; uncompensated; uncomplaining; uncomplainingly; uncompleted; uncomplicated
  1. On this point Narva was as uncommunicative as ever.

  2. But the troops knew that their grave leader, so uncommunicative in camp, and so unrelenting to misconduct, was constantly occupied with their well-being.

  3. To his wife he was as uncommunicative as to the rest.

  4. It struck Gwen that Aunt M'riar seemed a little unenquiring and uncommunicative about this son of Mrs. Prichard's, considering all the circumstances.

  5. On the other hand, Ruth was scrupulously uncommunicative of everything connected with Mrs. Prichard's supposed delusions.

  6. Inside the main cabin, the family huddled before the fire, as uncommunicative as cattle.

  7. Undy smiled good-humouredly, as he always did; and Alaric maintained his usual composed and uncommunicative look.

  8. Then he looked at Pop Geers, the silent one, who sat for hours dumb and uncommunicative on a feed box, tapping lightly on the ground with his racing whip and chewing straw.

  9. When the reporter talked to Hugh he found the inventor so embarrassed and uncommunicative that he gave up trying to get a story.

  10. Bobby shared his astonishment, for Paredes walked in, unbuttoning his overcoat, the former easy-mannered, uncommunicative foreigner.

  11. Bobby didn't care to meet the uncommunicative eyes whose depths he had never been able to explore.

  12. They drove quickly away from the black, uncommunicative mass of the abandoned building.

  13. On the subject of his protracted weekly absences at the State capital, the Honourable Hilary was as uncommunicative as he would have been had he retired for those periods to a bar-room.

  14. It was not until the autumn, in fact, that the subject of finance was mentioned between them, and after a period during which Howard had been unusually uncommunicative and morose.

  15. But otherwise the difference was such as to arouse doubt as to the real man lurking behind his dogged, uncommunicative manner.

  16. He was not so sure of himself with men; and he felt that some difficulties and not a few pitfalls lay between him and, for instance, the uncommunicative Zadok.

  17. Mercado looked up quickly, pleased with this mark of confidence from his uncommunicative chief.

  18. Cochran understood that the uncommunicative Burns would go no further and thought the Major should be enlightened.

  19. But mention the barbarian with corn-colored hair, or the blue-eyed Punjabi, and he will suddenly become as uncommunicative as the tongueless fakir who sits before the Anna Chuttra and mutely pleads for alms.

  20. I know," was her unsatisfactory response, and, proof that a woman can be quite uncommunicative when she wishes, she diverted conversation into another channel.

  21. The servant who opened the small door in the great iron-studded double gate, though he knew Charles Abbott well, was uncommunicative to the point of rudeness.

  22. There were other suggestions as well, put mostly in the form of ribald inquiry; but toward them Charles Abbott persisted in an attitude of uncommunicative disdain.

  23. At the United States Club, the idlers and gamblers surveyed Charles with dubious looks; and, over a rum punch, he adopted a sullen uncommunicative air.

  24. That stolid young person was as uncommunicative as what Marjory called "the little stuffed Indians in the Washington Museum.

  25. This, then, was the Swan, the mysterious yacht of which everyone had been talking all the summer, and whose owner was so obstinately uncommunicative and unsociable.

  26. He said nothing of this, however; evidently, whatever his merits or his failings, he was a very uncommunicative person.

  27. I know you thought me reserved and uncommunicative and stand-off and everything that is disagreeable, but I simply dared not talk, for fear I might reveal something that would betray my father.

  28. Knowing her of old in this uncommunicative mood, the others did not trouble further, but left her to her own devices until she chose to come out of it.

  29. Morton said that he did not know Lord Augustus and then answered sundry other questions of the same nature in the same uncommunicative way.

  30. You certainly have been very uncommunicative with reference to yourself.

  31. These were lodged in a neighbouring private hotel, where they were extremely uncommunicative as to their business in London.


  32. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "uncommunicative" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.