Sentence examples for docile with from inspiring English sources
While Kathy, who weighed about 1,100 pounds, was generally docile with her human benefactors, she was an imperious queen among whales.
Yet in the course of a few years, a fringe party was able to define a national community by scapegoating internal enemies; elevate a single, messianic leader; and keep the public docile with hatred while the state committed unprecedented crimes.
Ladybug looked docile, with her long-lashed eyes and sweet brown freckles.
She convinced him to buy a small gray mare that I named "Ladybug" because my fictional heroine, Trixie Belden, had a horse called "Lady". Ladybug looked docile, with her long-lashed eyes and sweet brown freckles.
At first I thought it was maybe a joke but then all of these guys on the staff who had so much bravado and would suddenly become so docile with certain clients purely out of loyalty.
Then came the genetics revolution of the nineties, and with it the possibility of endowing more docile species with the DNA to make spider silk.
Because the number of actual swine flu cases in the United States is still very small -- especially compared with seasonal influenza outbreaks -- the interactive map at the Flu Trends Web site shows a shockingly docile United States, with low "flu activity" detected in Texas, New York and California, states saturated with news coverage on the topic.
Goats are intelligent, docile animals with a knack for eating weeds, brush and just about anything with a green leaf.
Yet a number of designs look surprisingly docile, printed with sea horses, turtles and sheep.
So some frazzled owners try to turn their neighborhood travelers into docile homebodies with radio-controlled fences.
Video widely seen on the Internet of a high-ranking officer, later identified as Deputy Inspector Anthony Bologna, attacking what appeared to be docile protesters with pepper spray prompted public outrage and investigations by the Internal Affairs Bureau of the Police Department and Manhattan prosecutors.
