docile

How To Use docile In A Sentence

• Everyone who has ever been to the city's squares or parks will remember the lovely and docile pigeons.
• Docile and inoffensive by nature, the anteater's principal enemies are the puma and the jaguar.
• The two bands became docile subsistence farmers on submarginal agricultural land.
• This was his trump card, and he wanted to make sure it got played, even if the commission was too docile to press for it.
• At the same time, the expert Capuchin let his master see that he held upon his arm one of his victims, whom he was forming into a docile instrument; this was a young gentleman who wore a very short green cloak, a pourpoint of the same color, close-fitting red breeches, with glittering gold garters below the knee-the costume of the pages of Monsieur. The French Immortals Series — Complete
• Scientists believe the normally docile beasts are eating the baby birds to make up for deficiencies in their diet on Rum, or even using them as a form of medicine.
• Elites depend on normative interpretations of cultural forms to promote docile and tractable underlings; non-elites reinterpret the great traditions in order to meet their own social needs.
• And, moreover, literary parallels are the ancestors of that undocile child, Conjecture. Graf von Loeben and the Legend of Lorelei
• The Melbourne Writers Centre is dominated by women who will only tolerate strangely docile feminised men, who build towards an androgyny and collaborate in a general ‘dumbing down’ of the male.
• Today Di the drum dress a spirit and prepare to take a brigade and teach this indocile federal country in the middle of the green center, what be shrieked to obey.