incommunicative

Example Sentences

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But he was able to communicate with Willis about getting the beloved series to viewers “before the disease rendered him as incommunicative as he is now.”

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 12, 2023

"News of the World," therefore, becomes an adventure featuring a grizzled older man and a young incommunicative child.

From Salon • Dec. 23, 2020

Some parents say the camp has been incommunicative with them as the outbreak spread.

From Slate • Jul. 17, 2020

They were both at a late-night dinner in Rome in May, but Osaka said she was tired and incommunicative that time.

From New York Times • Sep. 6, 2018

For Conservation, strengthened by that mightiest quality in us, our indolence, sits for long ages, not victorious only, which she should be; but tyrannical, incommunicative.

From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas