LOQUACIOUS in a Sentence

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In temperament he was taciturn rather than loquacious, and he cherished a yearning for self-education.

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 Meanings and Examples of LOQUACIOUS
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loquacious
 a.  talkative; given to continual talking; chattering
Classic Sentence:
1  In temperament he was taciturn rather than loquacious, and he cherished a yearning for self-education.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER II
2  Yet, while cementing such friendships for all eternity, almost always they begin quarrelling the same evening, since, throughout, they are a loquacious, dissipated, high-spirited, over-showy tribe.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER IV
3  His favorite occupation when not playing boston, a card game he was very fond of, was that of listener, especially when he succeeded in setting two loquacious talkers at one another.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVIII
4  The more loquacious Thenardier became, the more mute was Jean Valjean.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE TORN COAT-TAIL
5  He would put in his poem, a loquacious old fellow, like me, and he would call him Nestor.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—THE TWO OLD MEN DO EVERYTHING, EACH ONE AFTER ...
6  Hugh was loquacious at breakfast.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
7  He was not effusive, loquacious, and bibulous like Giovanni.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
Example Sentence:
1  Though our daughter barely says a word to us these days, put a phone in her hand and see how loquacious she can be: our phone bills are out of sight!.