Sentence examples for seemed docile from inspiring English sources

Near the 8-year-old humans, the rhino looked almost comically large, but he seemed docile, responding to a caretaker's instructions.

The fact that a pitch that has seemed docile for four days can suddenly become capricious and ready to be exploited in the last one or two sessions of the final day is one reason why the proposal of the ECB chairman-elect, Colin Graves, that there should be four-day Tests with an increase in overs per day is wide of the mark.

Tino seemed docile, compliant, and weak.

But compared with the short-lived season of protest three years ago, Russian society seems docile and unthreatening.

Most of the animals seem docile and surprisingly well adjusted to life on the streets.

They seem docile as they are sold off, either as "cold" ewes past their breeding cycle, which are sought after by the Midlands' Asian communities; or as fat lambs for slaughter; or as forward lambs for fattening up; or as "glimmers", whatever they are; or, indeed, as any one of a dozen classes described in terms as arcane as those used in particle physics.

Among the stories told by users of Casual Encounters are those about the eager 22-year-old who turns out to be too shy to go through with it (and she's really 30); the woman who seems docile by e-mail but who turns violent after smoking a joint; and the single mother who lies about dropping the children off at their grandmother's house for the night.

Now Porsche has made a rather miraculous leap; it's made a very short wheelbase car seem docile in traffic.

"People need to recognize that Yellowstone wildlife is wild, even though they seem docile.

In Lovesody, your lady seems docile, how did she react to you constantly taking photographs of her and her children?

According to artist Andy Schoneberg, the chewing was done to make the animal seem docile, in a way it resembled a cow chewing its cud.