RETICENCE in a Sentence
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27 example sentences for RETICENCE, such as:
1. So you have noticed reticence.
2. He is very reticent about his past.
3. His reticence is more revealing than his speech.
4. This was the answer to Ashley's reticence, to his strange conduct.
5. Leave us some dignity, some reticence to remember out of our marriage.
2. He is very reticent about his past.
3. His reticence is more revealing than his speech.
4. This was the answer to Ashley's reticence, to his strange conduct.
5. Leave us some dignity, some reticence to remember out of our marriage.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of RETICENCE
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reticence
n. reserve; state or quality of being reluctant; unwillingness
Classic Sentence: (23 in 2 pages)
1 Walloping, tail lashing, the reticence of nature was undone, and the barriers which should divide Man the Master from the Brute were dissolved.
2 She liked the inwardness of the remnant of forest, the unspeaking reticence of the old trees.
3 Her normal manner among the heathfolk had that reticence which results from the consciousness of superior communicative power.
4 There was a little more reticence now than formerly in Thomasin's manner towards her cousin.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: 2 He Is Set upon by Adversities but He Sings a Song
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: 2 He Is Set upon by Adversities but He Sings a Song
5 If in telling the story I seem to be somewhat vague in certain details, the public will readily understand that there is an excellent reason for my reticence.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In XIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SECOND STAIN
Context Highlight In XIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SECOND STAIN
6 This was the answer to Ashley's reticence, to his strange conduct.
7 Leave us some dignity, some reticence to remember out of our marriage.
8 The Smails did not "believe in all this nonsense" about privacy and reticence.
9 As to Athos, faithful to his system of reticence, he contented himself with interrogating d'Artagnan by a look.
10 de Treville--a thing which, considering the habitual reticence of the worthy Musketeer, had very much astonished his captain.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context Highlight In 10 A MOUSETRAP IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
Context Highlight In 10 A MOUSETRAP IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
11 The queen might be as much injured by too much reticence as by too much confidence; and--let us admit it--the involuntary sentiment which she felt for her young protector decided her to speak.
12 And the mere sight of the torment, with his fishy eyes and mouth open, his sandy hair inquisitively on end, and his waistcoat heaving with windy arithmetic, made me vicious in my reticence.
13 Anything to equal the determined reticence of Mr. Jaggers under that roof I never saw elsewhere, even in him.
14 Nor did she know reticence: before any one she would disclose her mind, and no force could compel her to maintain silence when she desired to speak.
15 So you have noticed reticence.
Example Sentence:
1 Fearing his competitors might get advance word about his plans from talkative staff members, Hughes preferred reticence from his employees to loquacity.
2 His reticence is more revealing than his speech.
3 It commanded its followers to be reticent � to never degrade intimate emotions by parading them in public.
4 He is very reticent about his past.