Sentence examples for to be docile from inspiring English sources

"They appear to be docile, but they're not".

When she was refusing to be docile in hospital, she would have been a handful.

They were also expected to be docile, complacent, and ornamental; the brightest jewel in the king's crown.

The bees proved to be docile and friendly, even as we unloaded a bunch of their hard-earned honey.

'You had to be calm, bottle up any anger you might feel, show you were prepared to be docile.

Ever since, western honeybees have been bred all over the world to be docile and prolific honey makers.

He's not attacking the nurses or the doctors – but his fellow patients, the ones who need waking up, the ones who consent to being docile prisoner-patients and who've made their own jail.

One day after Roger Clemens whipped the jagged barrel of the bat in Mike Piazza's path in the Yankees' emotional 6-5 victoverover the Mets in Game 2, Torre changed from being volcanic and animated in his support of Clemens to being docile and a bit contrite about the scary situation.

Modern dogs have evolved with a clear genetic advantage to being docile and pleasing humans.

Women especially are taught that in order to be "good," we must be docile, accepting, quiet and polite.

You are not likely to escape by being docile, fight back.