Example Sentences

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He said the teenager came across as an "unremarkable, sullen, untalkative, gawky teenage boy" during their sessions together.

From BBC • Oct. 20, 2025

Why is a person wearing one black glove pushing a big suitcase in an airport any more suspicious than an untalkative man on a plane scribbling unrecognizable text in a notebook?

From Washington Post • May 13, 2016

Once on the Sam Simon, the Thunder’s officers were surly and untalkative.

From New York Times • Jul. 28, 2015

When the returns came in late election night, Greece's handsome Premier Constantine Karamanlis was tired, unshaven, untalkative.

From Time Magazine Archive

He seemed determined to be uninteresting and untalkative.

From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien