tight-mouthed

Example Sentences

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In lieu of ripeness, seed heads throughout the gardens present an eerie, ossified architecture: tight-mouthed trumpets of Iris sibirica, alliums like exploding stars.

From New York Times

A few days before the referendum, Gikas Hardouvelis, a senior Greek economist who was Varoufakis’s predecessor as minister of finance, sat at a café in a northern suburb of Athens, speaking with the tight-mouthed fury of someone who can longer maintain his public discretion.

From The New Yorker

Is it robust and plain-speaking, proud of its comic swagger, or is there something tight-mouthed in its imperative, with a hint of “or else” hanging off the end?

From The New Yorker

McKayla Maroney, women’s vault, gymanstics, 2012: Maroney became an Internet meme after pulling a dour, tight-mouthed face on the medal stand.

From Slate

They’re both as tight-mouthed as clams,” pursued Mrs. Gormley.

From Project Gutenberg