laconic

in a sentence

"And dinos aren't reptiles," Muldoon said laconically.  (source) Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park, 1993

The comic effect in these silent movies was often Chaplin's laconic acceptance of all the absurd things that happen to him.  (source) Jostein Gaarder, Sophie's World, 1991

He found a small, oil-stained box with the abbreviation Skid. laconically marked on it in pencil.  (source) Stephen King, The Shining, 1977

"Hello is girly," he informed her. "Real men are terse. Laconic."  (source) Cassandra Clare, City of Bones, 2007

"He does his job," Lawley said laconically.  (source) Michael Shaara, The Killer Angels, 1974

laconic farmers  (source) Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace, 1996

retorts Miller laconically, and turns to Haie Westhus again.  (source) Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front, 1929

The New England states use a terse form of instruction, a tight-lipped, laconic style sheet, wasting no words and few letters.  (source) John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley, 1962

Philip Lombard said laconically: "It might be."  (source) Agatha Christie, And Then There Were None, 1939

Is there a more widespread notion than the one that rural people are laconic, and is there a rural place anywhere in the world whose people really are?  (source) Tracy Kidder, Mountains Beyond Mountains, 2003

I always had a feeling that Jack knew something about Martin that he didn't want to mention. “Yeah, he's a good guy,” he answered laconically and rolled over on his back, covering his eyes against the sun.  (source) Maureen Daly, Seventeenth Summer, 1942

I was hostile and laconic throughout dinner.  (source) J. D. Salinger, Nine Stories, 1953

He did not say anything for a minute, but scratched his head and turned the snake over with his boot. "Where did you run onto that beauty, Jim?" "Up at the dog-town," I answered laconically.  (source) Willa Cather, My Antonia, 1918