Sentence examples for submissively from inspiring English sources

Below it, a row of handcuffed men sit on a wooden bench staring submissively toward the ground.

With stereotypically black features, her hair wrapped in a bandanna, she crouches suggestively perhaps submissively, despite being more than 35-feet high.

After presiding submissively over the convocation (1531) that declared Henry to be the head of the Church in England, Warham bravely published (February 1532) a dignified but emphatic protest against the enactments of the Reformation Parliament from 1529.

Females behaving submissively are gradually tolerated, particularly by unpaired males, enabling pair formation to proceed.

Initially, the Carthaginians submissively sought the arbitration of Rome in these disputes, but more often than not Roman judgment went in favour of Masinissa.

The nurse she plays has up to this point in the film abhorred violence, but when Costner replies, "Men are gonna get killed here today, Sue, and I'm gonna kill them, you understand that?," she submissively answers, "Yes".

Francis reproached them for not accepting abuse submissively.

"Today's youth will not sit by submissively while being denied all the rights and privileges and joys of life," it read.

The chestnut trees looked as though nothing could oblige them ever to shed their leaves; and when the wind bent the grass around the barren flat, submissively, the grass went all one color, silvery, like the underside of leaves, as if it might rain.

When the sound of their voices stopped, she opened her eyes and looked out to see them kissing, while behind them the vast expanse of desert threw itself almost as far as the eye could see, but not quite, because on the horizon, just about lost in the haze, a plateau hunched submissively beneath a huge, vacant sky.

In real life, ­Pienaar is probably a pungently ­forceful personality, but here he has to be ­submissively flavourless in deference to the chief.