Example Sentences

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The minutes-long standstill forced several people into the street; many more, including my husband and his cane, engaged in a potentially perilous stutter-step around the two knee-high, randomly moving yet noncommunicative vehicles.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2026

A spokeswoman for Jarecki’s office said Friday that he is now suffering from dementia and is noncommunicative.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 1, 2026

For one thing, they could suffer from depression, anxiety, or psychosis—conditions that might lead a person to be perceived as noncommunicative.

From Slate • May 21, 2018

In 2006, the subdivision of noncommunicative patients into coma, vegetative, minimally conscious, and locked-in states seemed well established when a shocking report, published in the prestigious journal Science, suddenly shattered the clinical consensus.

From Slate • Mar. 17, 2014

He was a sullen and noncommunicative person and intimated that he had suited his own convenience in coming on from the West.

From Joan of Arc of the North Woods by Day, Holman