Sentence examples for docile boy from inspiring English sources

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When my six-year-old landed on the Docile Boy, at square 9, I asked him, "Do you know what 'docile' means?" "No".

But she insists he was a docile boy and could not commit such a heinous crime.

Upon reaching Wannado's front door, my 14-month-old son -- a normally docile boy -- decides to wail inconsolably for 40 minutes.

He was swept in-country by Robert S. McNamara's Project 100,000, which sucked in kids who wouldn't have passed the regular Army tests: It was better to have the docile boy with the mutilated finger than a troublemaker from Harvard who might sabotage the choppers.

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At first Mack rages at the docile boy-craziness of the "Wet Side Story" girls, and she's desperate to return to the present because she's about to start attending a high-powered Eastern prep school.

"I had gone to bed a docile, courteous boy, and I'd awakened with an inextinguishable rage lodged in my very flesh".

Now his widow, she inherits his entire estate, using the proceeds to acquire a more suitable husband - by implication a docile toy boy.

In the beginning, he was docile like a lost boy, and by the end, he is fighting for his life as a man.

The gender activists who fill our schools and government agencies will continue with their efforts to make boys more docile and emotional.

The boys are docile, cautious, soft-spoken, and then it dawns on me that they are so because of brain damage, mild retardation, however you want to put it, and the young woman is their hired shepherd.

He showed me his photo in a school yearbook; he looked as docile and innocent as a boy soprano during the Te Deum.

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