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.

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 Meanings and Examples of RETICENCE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
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.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 11
2  She liked the inwardness of the remnant of forest, the unspeaking reticence of the old trees.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
3  Her normal manner among the heathfolk had that reticence which results from the consciousness of superior communicative power.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country
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
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
6  This was the answer to Ashley's reticence, to his strange conduct.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
7  Leave us some dignity, some reticence to remember out of our marriage.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXIII
8  The Smails did not "believe in all this nonsense" about privacy and reticence.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
9  As to Athos, faithful to his system of reticence, he contented himself with interrogating d'Artagnan by a look.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 9 D'ARTAGNAN SHOWS HIMSELF
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
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.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 18 LOVER AND HUSBAND
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.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IX
13  Anything to equal the determined reticence of Mr. Jaggers under that roof I never saw elsewhere, even in him.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXIX
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.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER I
15  So you have noticed reticence.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
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.