How to Use laconic in a Sentence

laconic

adjective
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  • He had a reputation for being laconic.
  • The soundtrack is fueled by the laconic rock of the era, from Weezer to Oasis.
    — Andrew R. Chow, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2018
  • And what did the laconic former catcher say if the ball clanged off a catcher’s mitt?
    — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Oct. 2023
  • At the end of the day, the [speaking manner] never changed; the laconic humor never changed.
    — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 6 Oct. 2017
  • But there's also a rebirth in the fall after the hot, laconic days of summer.
    — David G. Allan, CNN, 22 Sep. 2021
  • Pulled between the sharp Dove and laconic Gilbert, Emmy’s is struggling to find her own voice.
    — Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 June 2022
  • Shadow is a laconic character on both the page and screen.
    — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 11 Mar. 2017
  • The athletes are breezy and laconic, the sportswriters awe-struck and serious.
    — Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 10 Dec. 2022
  • ElliQ might suggest jokes to someone who laughs a lot, or keep quieter around a laconic sort.
    — Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2022
  • Bloom is a fine guitarist and, to his credit, Cooley has both a sweet voice and a lovely sense of that laconic Garfunkel cool.
    — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 21 Nov. 2019
  • There was only a reminder that this laconic space cowboy/knight is just some guy.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 30 Dec. 2019
  • The laconic Battaglia, who is also 37, was filling cracks and nail holes in an old piece of wood from York, Pa. Beams of walnut, pine and oak rested against one wall.
    — Washington Post, 2 Jan. 2020
  • At the beginning of the film, a laconic trucker named Gorō, a Robert Mitchum type in a plaid shirt and cowboy hat, stops for a bite at a dingy roadside ramen shop.
    — Sophie Pinkham, The New York Review of Books, 8 May 2020
  • The contemplative nature of the game and the laconic tempo have always been attractive to me.
    — Bruce Jenkins, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Feb. 2023
  • Foster, on the other hand, proved to be a laconic guy who typically keeps his feelings in check.
    — Mary Colurso | [email protected], al, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Lean and laconic, Nesmith seemed the band’s voice of authority.
    — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2021
  • This train is smaller, and by lunchtime, the passenger count has dwindled to just me and a laconic lady in her sixties with a small wheelie suitcase and a thick book.
    — Brendan Sainsbury, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Apr. 2022
  • A laconic New Englander by nature, the 60-year-old freshman lawmaker with the graying beard and the rangy build isn't known as one of the chamber's showboaters.
    — Daniela Altimari, courant.com, 22 July 2017
  • The clinching moment Sunday was as muted as the laconic Johnson.
    — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 15 Nov. 2020
  • The laconic charmer went from sitcom sweetness to blockbuster glory with his low-key sense of humor intact.
    — Darren Franich, EW.com, 1 July 2022
  • Stranded, this laconic young man takes the news in stride, merely walking away with perhaps the false conviction that all will be alright.
    — Manuel Betancourt, Variety, 18 Dec. 2021
  • Its rhetoric may be laconic and folksy, but its fury and its nobility seem distilled from Shakespeare.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2017
  • Someone reported on the radio that the blast had destroyed another Humvee, and had killed Omar Ibrahim, the laconic first lieutenant.
    — Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2017
  • Elba’s character, a laconic gent named Harp, shares his untidy house with a horse, cordoned off in a makeshift living-room stall.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 2 Apr. 2021
  • Tall, laconic, with a penetrating gaze, the man had presence.
    — oregonlive, 8 July 2022
  • Tall and blond, with a square jaw and charmingly laconic screen persona, Mr. Hurt was suddenly in great demand.
    — Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2022
  • A lot of people loved Angus Cloud, the star of Euphoria who abruptly died today at the age of 25, for his voice — that syrupy laconic drawl that sounded like a podcast at .5x speed.
    — Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 31 July 2023
  • An intense Sapiro makes clear that the laconic Roland’s ostensibly still waters run deep.
    — Mike Fischer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 15 Jan. 2018
  • Bob Newhart, the comedian and actor whose deadpan manner and laconic approach led to a series of bestselling comedy albums and starring roles in two long-running sitcoms, died Thursday at the age of 94.
    — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 18 July 2024
  • Actor Efren Ramírez nailed Pedro's laconic, deadpan style that made his promise a hilarious highlight.
    — Danny Horn, EW.com, 11 June 2024

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