Sentence examples for sheeplike from inspiring English sources

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sheeplike

adjective

Resembling a sheep: docile or uncomplaining, or willing to follow a leader blindly.

  • I was horrified by their sheeplike acquiescence.

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"And he is writing back saying, 'A, B, C, and D are well-known species; E is very rare and has not been reported from your locality and is very interesting.' So for a while I was the only conchologist in India!" Ramachandran continues to collect fossils and has gone on digs in South Dakota, where he has found specimens of trilobites and a thirty-million-year-old oreodon, a sheeplike creature.

"In that sheeplike way, we slagged him behind his back".

It's part of Yee's precocity to realize that a population molded into sheeplike complaisance is ideologically vulnerable.

"But much of travel, as I saw it, was so sheeplike, so John Doe".

(Small quibble: Do goats really make that noise? Originally I had filled in "baa," although I suppose that's too sheeplike.

But as the initial passions settled, many people became fond of the goats as image and metaphor — scruffy, independent, friendly, determined, one of the most humanlike creatures in the barnyard, with qualities many sheeplike humans might emulate.

Jen is acutely conscious that to affirm that Asians have a strongly reduced sense of individuality in relation to their Western counterparts risks endorsing the view that Asians are "robot- or sheeplike".

An enduring New York mystery is the sheeplike behavior of Broadway playgoers who line up by the hundreds outside theaters long before the curtain goes up.

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