Sentence examples for docile child from inspiring English sources

In almost every other respect, she is an obedient, even rather docile, child.

After he is well he permits his fiancee to direct all his activities - he becomes a docile child.

The HPV vaccine is given, not to relatively docile toddlers and young children, but to curious preteens, and it isn't a protection against something as easily explained as measles or polio.

The antipsychotic drugs can suppress the highest centers of the brain -- the frontal lobes -- leading to indifference and apathy, which makes the children more docile and easier to manage.

But, aside from a random attack here and there, centuries of porridge and prophecy have made the local hyena population so docile that small Harari children breezily wander out to the field to hand-feed scraps to the city's spirit animals.

And somehow, it still makes so much sense to think of Fisher as part of a mother-daughter dynamic not as a docile caretaker or a fragile child on the edge, but as an empowering figure, a nurturer, the wise old General Organa handing off the lightsaber to a younger generation of self-possessed women.

Now we endure our ordeal at checkpoints, as docile as too-well-mannered children.

The company concludes that men with wives and children are more docile than romantic loners.

He bemoans the lack of a strong son to succeed him, bullies his other children and his docile wife, maltreats his mistress, and now sets about forcing Sorayah into the role of dutiful daughter.

The first generation of migrants put up with this in return for earning far more money than they could have made back home, but their children are less docile and there have been riots in southern towns as they agitate for better treatment.

"Beautiful, docile, and great for young children".