| 1. | Will you be a little more explicit he said. - from The Republic by Plato |
| 2. | Fairfax either could not, or would not, give me more explicit information of the origin and nature of Mr. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 3. | I am thus explicit that you may know our real object. - from The Romance of Lust by Anonymous |
| 4. | I had told them that I should not return until the morning, and had given them explicit orders not to stir from the house. - from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe |
| 5. | Dale felt that there must be an explicit avowal on both sides. - from The Romance of Lust by Anonymous |
| 6. | Oliver, quite elated and honoured by a sense of his importance, faithfully promised to be secret and explicit in his communications. - from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens |
| 7. | My father's family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. - from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens |
| 8. | The Ptor brothers had given me explicit directions for reaching the point of the city where I could find living accommodations and be near the offices of the government agents to whom they had given me letters. - from A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs |
| 9. | Albert's lips scarcely whispered "Good-by," but his look was more explicit it expressed a whole poem of restrained anger, proud disdain, and generous indignation. - from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |