Sentence examples for docile after from inspiring English sources

(The other animal in the study experienced the opposite reaction; having been relatively docile, after ablation it experienced agitation during task performance).

Chickens are most docile after they have bedded down for the evening, and all but the most skittish of hens can be handled, even without a friend's assistance, during the night.

But registration of candidates was more restrictive than in previous elections, and three docile challengers remained after 18 others dropped out or were rejected, the report said.

He acquired skill at dodging the consequences of involvements: still in Cape Town, he got a girl pregnant and let her cope with all the details of the abortion, and in London he allowed his docile little Austrian, after their last night together, to ease herself out the door in demure silence while he feigned sleep.

Domesticated animals quickly evolve docile and submissive behaviors after isolation from their wild conspecifics.

After some relatively docile early efforts in the Murdoch-owned title, he showed the first signs last weekend of his old penchant for biting the hand that feeds him.

After a comparatively docile half hour in which audience members sipped and analyzed a quartet of pisco brands, the Lima-born and San Francisco-based pisco historian Guillermo Toro-Lira took the stage.

With markets closed Monday for Labor Day, there seemed to be little buying interest in a high-volume session Tuesday, and a round of encouraging economic data failed to lift spirits as volatility returned after a relatively docile summer.

Winged males, in contrast, resemble the typical ant male in morphology and behaviour: they are docile and a few days after adult emergence disperse from their natal nests [ 4, 11- 14].

But after she explained bees' docile nature, as well as their importance in the ecosystem, the skeptics slowly warmed to the idea.

After six years, the docile pairs had been totally decimated by social parasites since they did little to defend themselves or their colony.