Sentence examples for the docile from inspiring English sources

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the docile

adjective

Yielding to control or supervision, direction, or management.

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Scandinavians are not the docile fantasy of men's imaginations.

You can even cuddle one of the docile koalas in your arms.

He'd look at the docile men around him and see the sharp hatred beneath their submission.

Ms. Tumelty's forceful Francis eventually insists that the docile Loretta enter the bathroom.

Sorry for the inconvenience, sports fans, but the days of the docile black athlete are over.

"Dennis the Menace" would be "Dennis the Docile" within a few episodes.

Mabern, never content to play the docile accompanist, keeps him on his toes.

The warriors are not all males; the docile creatures are not all females.

Even the docile citizens of Singapore began grumbling when their normally buoyant economy went into recession in 2001.

Even the docile mainstream media were forced to devote more coverage to the opposition, lest readers forsake them.

Mr. Carlin's most recent work was especially contentious, even bitter, full of ranting against the stupid, the fat, the docile.

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