How to Use uncommunicative in a Sentence

uncommunicative

adjective

• Its steering is vague and uncommunicative, though, in the rain at highway speeds.
  — Don Schroeder, Car and Driver, 29 May 2023
• OSHA did finally start to move, but it's been slow and uncommunicative about the plants.
  — Milwaukee, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 14 Aug. 2017
• When officers arrived at the house, the sheriff said, Monahan was uncommunicative and would not come out.
  — Ed Shanahan, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Apr. 2023
• Fathers of teenage daughters are often portrayed as distant, uncommunicative, and a victim of their teen's mood swings.
  — Maia Efrem, refinery29.com, 15 June 2019
• This uncommunicative tendency is virulent in the world of email.
  — Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Aug. 2020
• In the world of football the oriental owners can often be seen as unobtrusive and uncommunicative.
  — SI.com, 12 Sep. 2017
• Some of these units had a long history of problems, others were uncommunicative, and some functioned well but aspired to collaborate more.
  — Michael P. Leiter, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2015
• The officer was found uncommunicative near railroad tracks, a short distance from his police cruiser.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al.com, 23 July 2019
• The result is that Robert spends much of the movie's running time morosely lying on his back, sullenly pondering his fate and being largely uncommunicative.
  — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Apr. 2020
• That deadline has since been extended to June 7, but Toho said the property’s management has been uncommunicative and delinquent on payments for months.
  — Katie Rice, orlandosentinel.com, 7 May 2021
• Boris, who’s about 10, is sullen and uncommunicative with his mother, making solo trips to the lake near their house to continue practicing the underwater swimming John had been teaching him.
  — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Oct. 2022
• Place’s loving but irresolutely uncommunicative momma sends mixed signals to a daughter who just wants to run around the mall and gawk at boys with her friends, but instead runs into a sinister lothario played by Treat Williams.
  — Nicholas Bell, SPIN, 12 May 2023
• The man, never named, is uncommunicative, neither sharing much of himself nor seeming interested in getting to know Emerick at any depth.
  — Nancy Lord, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Aug. 2022
• Passengers say that rather than trying to accommodate them, the cruise companies have been uncommunicative and unhelpful.
  — Tariro Mzezewa, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2020
• Isolated and uncommunicative, Lucas grows feebler, losing stamina and praying to God to deliver him from the unconquerable place.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 May 2022
• The captives are separated into three groups and driven to isolated locations; their captors are brutal and uncommunicative.
  — Tom Nolan, WSJ, 13 May 2022
• Most candidates are unprepared and end up being boring, rambling or uncommunicative.
  — Phil Blair, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Aug. 2023
• The steering delivers good highway stability but is dull and uncommunicative on meandering two-lanes.
  — Drew Dorian, Car and Driver, 8 Sep. 2023
• This is an emotionally layered drama that requires the performers to convincingly act out rage, euphoria and extreme passion, yet also at times be withdrawn, awkward and uncommunicative.
  — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 14 Apr. 2022
• Many less attractive traits are also recorded: Charles could be uncommunicative and dilatory, evasive and mendacious, refractory, vindictive, obstinate, even outright wicked, though self-delusive about the motives of others.
  — R.j.w. Evans, The New York Review of Books, 11 June 2020
• Cunanan had been able to evade authorities for nearly three months because his murders in multiple states had been clumsily handled by different, uncommunicative jurisdictions.
  — Joanna Robinson, HWD, 22 Mar. 2018
• Chinese authorities have been generally uncommunicative about the status of Toshiba’s application in recent weeks, according to people involved in the effort.
  — Kosaku Narioka, WSJ, 8 May 2018
• In a deposition, Richard Sackler’s daughter Marianna is sullen and uncommunicative.
  — Patrick Radden Keefe, The New Yorker, 20 Sep. 2021
• Managers who are unsupportive, unfair, uncommunicative and unreasonable about expectations can turn a reasonable workload into a source of chronic stress.
  — Bjorn Reynolds, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2023
• This ability to detect consciousness could also help physicians and family members make critical decisions, such as withdrawal of life-sustaining therapy, for tens of thousands of uncommunicative patients.
  — Christof Koch, Scientific American, 1 Nov. 2017
• Patients and their families who have testified at legislative hearings describe an unresponsive and uncommunicative board that usually allows doctors accused of negligence or malpractice to continue to practice.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 June 2021
• Spall’s Turner is irascible and uncommunicative, seemingly a thundercloud charged with negativity.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 14 Nov. 2019

Last Updated: 30 Nov 2024