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

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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.
Children are amazingly docile and compliant, obediently following the instructions of their elders as if they know no other way.
A state which dwarfs its men,in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished.
A state which dwarfs its men,in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished.
She did not wish to go to the top, for she knew what would take place and had no desire to see it, but her own feelings were quelled and she was docilely swept along with the crowd.
Ten years later he refined his vision with the gloomily satirical sequel, set almost entirely in a shopping mall the day after doomsday, with zombies as the ultimate docile consumers.
Docile and chill though probably due to kennel cough, giardia, and a respiratory infection, Peanut Butter has been a dreamboat - barkless, crate-trained, doesn't chew, and, so far, housebroken. Archive 2009-04-01
While the Greek press is far from docile, it has generally been extremely supportive of the Games.
-- but I have always associated the word docile with cows. Evolver Diary Entry
The expansion of the Nanny State, which eventually turns not into democracy, which was the goal of socialization and "egalite", but rather a docile and cowed populace the overlords treat as their wards and thus their .... children. John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...
Yet if it is power the initial persona seeks, the stakes would surely need to be higher than the pleasure of manipulating a few docile and credulous tourists.
It allowed women to control a horse at all paces: no longer did they have to sit sideways on a docile animal. Times, Sunday Times
In the days of the former administration, the backbenches and the party were so docile and biddable that they would do anything to support their leader.
M. Krempe was not equally docile; and in my condition at that time, of almost insupportable sensitiveness, his harsh blunt encomiums gave me even more pain than the benevolent approbation of M. Waldman. Chapter 5
Mr. Rarey has been a horse-breaker in the United States from his earliest youth, and had frequently to break in horses five or six years old, that had run wild until that mature undocile age. A New Illustrated Edition of J. S. Rarey's Art of Taming Horses With the Substance of the Lectures at the Round House, and Additional Chapters on Horsemanship and Hunting, for the Young and Timid
On the shallow reef shelter schools of humpbacked and bluelined snappers, oriental sweetlips and yet more fat, docile groupers.
One of the scientists said that when he fed the chemical to lab rats, they would become completely meek and docile.
Irish centenarians are largely a docile, low-maintenance lot who ask little of the state and get little from it.
In Karachi, what at times starts off as a docile four-lane line-up in a thoroughfare meant for two lanes, frequently descends to a crawl and ends in a seething orgy of terpsichorean self-expression run riot.
As Nicholls puts it, Kauto Star, normally known as a docile and placid beast, is "mad fresh, really well in himself", having been brought to peak fitness for today's King George VI Chase at Kempton, which he has dominated over the past four years. Paul Nicholls has Kauto Star ready for historic King George Chase bid
the docile masses of an enslaved nation
Our favourite is sheeple, a handy if rather dismissive term for docile citizens in an age of imperilled democracy. Times, Sunday Times
A state which dwarfs its men,in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished.
They are a reaction to oppression - or at least a transmogrification of the angry white male into the docile white wimp.
A state which dwarfs its men,in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished.
She remembers that she was considered an extremely docile and undemanding child.
Once that was done, they were supposed to revert to docile, compliant citizens, content to cooperate with allies no longer supportive of their aspirations.
The stereotype of battered wives as fragile, passive, placatory and docile does not do justice to their actual role in marriage relationships.
Joe, meanwhile, struggles to belong, and his mood swings, from docile to dangerous, increasing in intensity as his insecurity deepens.
The witch keeps the tokoloshe docile by cutting the fringe of hair that hangs over its eyes.
A single buffalo distress bellow is enough to turn a docile, ruminating herd into a battalion of warriors, ready to charge and chase off an entire pride of lions.
Two ex-Union officers who owned a plantation in Alabama exclaimed that they had “never employed so docile, industrious, and good humored a set of people in all our experience.” A Renegade History of the United States
It allowed women to control a horse at all paces: no longer did they have to sit sideways on a docile animal. Times, Sunday Times
Since 1997, Labour backbenchers have docilely suffered themselves to be herded through the division lobby with about as much consideration for their feelings as crated veal calves.
Modern sirenians are large, docile, aquatic herbivores.
Melvin Wilcox also denied the allegations and described one of his wolfhounds as ‘docile’ and a ‘pussycat’.
A state which dwarfs its men,in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished.
The Javanese are a very docile, amiable, and intelligent people; they are faithful and honest servants, and are brave and trustworthy in danger, when they can trust to their leaders. Mark Seaworth
I think people enjoy watching an old person who's not sweet, docile or compliant. The Sun
My pack horse which I rode to-day, a buckskin colored broncho, which is docile under the pack saddle, "bucked" as I mounted him this morning; but I kept my seat in the saddle without difficulty. The Discovery of Yellowstone Park
I can wait for a docile, biddable, beautiful chit who will worship the ground I walk upon, unlike that spitfire of a hoyden.
A state which dwarfs its men,in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished.
And she cannot necessarily make Annie a more docile child with less va-va-voom. Red Flags or Red Herrings?
Just about anyone who was not entirely docile and subservient to the ruling ethos could be locked up for life.
Or did it mean getting men to become more docile and emotional - customarily held to be more the feminine qualities?
But those who had the guts to get close say that both the horses are docile and riding them is a wonderful experience.
a gentle old horse, docile and obedient
Others in the queue were excited primary school children, waiting in a surprisingly docile and patient way.
However, Adrian points out that even the most docile, harmless household pet can turn into a monster.
The once docile population has finally risen up against the ruthless regime.
An unexpected channel for airing these grievances has come from a church newspaper which was traditionally a docile propaganda medium of the bishops, but which is now to the fore in campaigning for extensive reform of an over-clericalist church. Irish Blogs
docile pupils eager for instruction
Orthodox art history tends to see Effie as a malign influence, eagerly propelling her docile husband down the path to mass acceptance, marchionesses' daughters and giving the public what it wanted—a long, craven process of "selling out" symbolized by the baronetcy that came his way in 1885. A Far From Model Marriage
Cows, calves and bull were docile and showed no signs of fear or excitement at the presence of the group.
They had taken far more kindly to the English language and clerkly jobs, and seemed to be more docile.
At the feast which follows the three bridegrooms wager on whose wife is the most docile and submissive.
The birds were docile on the drive, so the TV people chased them across the road to get some shots of them crossing, being careful to stay out of shot themselves.
Cassandra directed her next chain of complaints at this overlarge but docile feline.
Professor Paul Emanuel, to wit, never lost an opportunity of intimating his opinion that mine was rather a fiery and rash nature — adventurous, indocile, and audacious. Villette
It seemed a harmless, matey gesture towards Wimbledon's decent, docile supporters.
Few women are the docile and innocent lambs that the media and feminist groups have portrayed them to be.
The Italian Spinone is know for its calm, docile, demeanor, making them a great addition to any family.
But she is quick and quiet, docile and clever, sings well, and is of good blood.
This must have been what happened in England because we became docile servants of the Normans and fought their wars for them.
Once rescued, they are really docile creatures and will sit and let you treat them. Times, Sunday Times
For the man with one leg, it is to be said that he is more docile, which is to be desired. The Purchase Price
She haltered the strangely docile stallion and tied him up in the tie racks, next to an extremely irritable paint gelding being groomed.
She has become more docile and sleepy in her old age, although sometimes she still gets a burst of energy, which is wonderful.
The rapid, repetitious beat of the wings seem to have no limit in flexibility or resiliences and give these creatures a docile appearance.
A state which dwarfs its men,in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished.
Some fished in clear deep waters and fish would swim over for their bait; some played the zither and the gulls would remain docile and uninterrupted.
Do they assume that women who practise faith are a docile lot, meekly swallowing the built-in injustices in their respective religions?
Everyone who has ever been to the city's squares or parks will remember the lovely and docile pigeons.
This rout was on a docile batting pitch. The Sun
It was hoped by employers that the new working class would be more docile and amenable than the old.
Was there some hidden agenda to keep all us colonial subjects docile and subservient to the Great Empire by brainwashing our smarter students?
According to the dictionary that comes with Mac OS X 10.5, a "palfrey" is "a docile horse used for ordinary riding. It's called a "vacation."
Were southern millhands docile or individualistic, or some special blend of the two?
This rout was on a docile batting pitch. The Sun
After a quick bop on the head, poor Fred becomes docile and co-operative.
With its striking brown and white markings and glossy skin, the somewhat docile snake was weighed and checked in at 26,6kg.
The sight of this, Alda declared, made her ill; though the little boy was as docile as he was helpless; but it was quite true that to nerves and ears not inured from the first, Theodore's humming and his concertina were a trial from their perpetuity. The Pillars of the House, V1
Once rescued, they are really docile creatures and will sit and let you treat them. Times, Sunday Times
Next morning, I joined a walking ride and the cowboys, or wranglers, as they call them here, gave me a very docile horse.
If this is not done, those of us who call ourselves citizens will in reality be nothing more than docile instruments in the hands of distant powers.
Mount Pruno, till, finding disciples there no less indocile to the severity of his discipline than the former, he was determined to pursue himself that rigorous plan of life which he had hitherto unsuccessfully proposed to others. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March
As a babe is without malice negatively, so you must be positively and by actuation, that is, full of love and meekness; as the babe is unresisting, so must you be docile, and so on. The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Bread and leeks for the sims, and water, it being reported they grow undocile on stronger drink. A different flesh
They look like teddy bears, they are very docile and friendly, don't have escapologist tendencies and are quite small.
The friars seemed long since to have forgotten those noble aims that had meant so much to the founders and early workers of their orders, if indeed the great majority of those of the later day had ever realized the meaning of their office, for the Spanish writers of the time delight in characterizing them as the meanest of the Spanish peasantry, when not something worse, who had been "lassoed," taught a few ritualistic prayers, and shipped to the Philippines to be placed in isolated towns as lords and masters of the native population, with all the power and prestige over a docile people that the sacredness of their holy office gave them. The Social Cancer
A feeling of sudden, proud self-confidence, an indocile wish to walk unmoved in spite of grim environments, plainly possessed him, and when he reached the wicket-gate he turned in without apparent effort. Wessex Tales
The drive was superb, tight, controllable, plenty of power but docile as a kitten after a big meal when simply pootling along.
They turned to run, but the creatures seemed docile and did not attack.
You can be solitary and courageous, also docile and diplomatic when needed.
A state which dwarfs its men,in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished.
As the countdown continued and the ritual of docile thanatopsis became more intense, Matt and Emily began to edge away from their half-mesmerized guards, pushing Eve in the antigrav chair and keeping close to the outer ring of lepidos. Perseus Spur
Docile as a bellwether sheep, he let himself be led away, and the rest of the castaways crowded close behind him.
Were they too docile and too compliant, and did they fail to ask the skeptical questions and raise the objections they should have in the run-up to war?
Every policy discussed to date has as its objective feeding people where they are and forcing them to remain docile, even when and if starving, by armed forces. Food
The popular cries which madden other races are utterly meaningless to the docile, unemotional "mujik," loyal and conservative to the very marrow of his bones. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878
The falcon, although unhooded, perches, docile and still on the edge of a table.
They are a very docile animal which in itself favours them to herd owners.
Mrs. Day extinguished again the candles she had lit, and began docilely to unrobe herself. Mrs. Day's Daughters
Various non-docile members of the community, who Campbell attacks, spend a great amount of time analysing his words and actions for anomalies and wilful elisions.
However, it did not make him a docile infant.
Draw an easy contrast between a rebellious son and a docile one.
A state which dwarfs its men,in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished.
While her ladyship declaimed, the clergyman's wandering eye confessed his absent mind; his thoughts travelling, perhaps, to accomplish a truce betwixt Saladin and Conrade of Mountserrat, unless they chanced to be occupied with some occurrences of that very day, so that the lady was obliged to recall her indocile auditor with the leading question, "You are well acquainted with Dryden, of course, Mr. Cargill? St. Ronan's Well
There is still a lot of that docile, cringing attitude among policy-makers 45 years later.
A state which dwarfs its men,in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished.
No longer a good man a docile kid a listener.
One of the scientists said that when he fed the chemical to lab rats, they would become completely meek and docile.
The African-American athlete is expected to act docile and not question the establishment even if wronged. Dexter Rogers: Albert Haynesworth: How Can a $100-Million Dollar Athlete Proclaim He's a 'Slave?'
It was hoped by employers that the new working class would be more docile and amenable than the old.
Attempts to tame and domesticate these creatures were met with mixed results, and even though some had proven docile enough to use as mounts, there was always the slight element of unpredictability about them.
You are to remain docile while in transit to the holding facility. 365 tomorrows » 2005 » September : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
They were pretty docile, though they did slobber a bit on the floor. Fine Art Auction House Goes to the Dogs
Next morning, I joined a walking ride and the cowboys, or wranglers, as they call them here, gave me a very docile horse.
She handles suspicious cops, docile family lawyers and an ex - army pal of her husband with aplomb.
Most citizens are docile in their submission to authority, and neither Congress nor the public has any taste for rebellion at present.
This is the kind of school that forces the students to dress up in togas for classics competitions; these are the kind of students who are so docile they actually wear them with pride.
A state which dwarfs its men,in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished.
a truce betwixt Saladin and Conrade of Mountserrat, unless they chanced to be occupied with some occurrences of that very day, so that the lady was obliged to recall her indocile auditor with the leading question, Saint Ronan's Well
Resting on the sand are stingrays, electric rays, frogfish and the docile Port Jackson shark.
Yorkshire had an unexpectedly good day after it had appeared that Byas had erred in asking Kent to bat first on a fairly docile pitch.
This characterisation is problematic, as here Mehta is reinforcing the stereotype of docile, demure, and pristine femininity as the ideal form of South Asian womanhood.
Another trait, aggressiveness, was linked to metabolic rate, with docile dogs such as collies burning calories more slowly than territorial great danes, for instance (more than 10,000 years ago, but Careau doubts that long lifespan or rapid metabolism were selected on purpose. New Scientist - Online News
The vulgar of all ranks are invariably sensual and indocile; yet The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley
The cabmen of Paris form a distinct class, a separate society, composed of all sorts of elements -- a turbulent, indocile, rebellious set of men, always in revolt against their employers and against the law, which holds them with an iron and inflexible grasp. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876
Henry was too thankful for being permitted to enjoy her presence to forfeit the boon by any untractableness, and, for one of his excitable temperament, he was exceedingly docile. Hatchie, the Guardian Slave; or, The Heiress of Bellevue
It's going to be tough finding a dog as placid and docile as Sue, in fact, I don't think we will ever see the likes of her again.
The goats are tiny and docile, and suffer well the pats and pokes of oversugared junior Americans.
If they were surprised to hear these enraged words from their usual docile sister, they didn't show it.
For felines all over the world - from docile house cats to Bengal tigers - clawing is an essential characteristic of being a cat.
These visitors also have with them some docile humanoids.
I would now communicate unto thee, on finding thee docile and assentaneous, the instruction thou needest on the signification of the words NATURAL CAUSE, if thy duty toward thy neighbour had been first instilled into thee. Citation and Examination of William Shakspeare, Euseby Treen, Joseph Carnaby, and Silas Gough, Clerk
They seem to have been a somewhat negative people, generally described as docile, gentle, generous, and indolent. Cuba, Old and New
The drive was superb, tight, controllable, plenty of power but docile as a kitten after a big meal when simply pootling along.
They're usually so docile, chess players, with their pasty skin, skinny necks, elbow patches and eyeglasses.
I'm more than just a bit uncomfortable with the underlying (and unsupported) assumption found in both of these posts at the Beckner-Posner Blog which discuss the gender gap in education: namely, that girl students are more docile, unaggressive and patient than boy students. What Everyone Else Is Saying
If we find few to communicate with, maybe we shall be pleased to find in our grandchildren a docile generation willing to lend an ear to our prattle.
With him they will be gentle and docile as lambs.
Sure, they look all cuddly and docile, but I bet they're plotting to take over the world.
A state which dwarfs its men,in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished.
Sitting behind a computer, any shy or docile human being can become the world's nastiest bastard of a hacker without even the slightest tinge of regret.
At the feast which follows the three bridegrooms wager on whose wife is the most docile and submissive.
A state which dwarfs its men,in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished.
The two men stare at her, uncomprehending, rendered docile by her gibberish.
I think that the term "docile" is the term that troubles me most. March 2008
Modern sirenians (manatees and dugongs) are large, docile, aquatic herbivores that have flippers for forelimbs and no hind limbs.
They could not buy tickets in advance, so they queue like docile cattle.
Africans and their American-born descendents had to acquiesce - at least in the presence of Anglos - to white hegemony and languish as subjugated docile beings.
That's not to say musk-oxen are docile around people: Aggressive bulls will bellow at or charge humans when confronted and, on rare occasions, maim or even kill.
Fortunately he turned out to be remarkably docile and highly trained.
Then castrate him to render him docile.
After they are informed of the situation, Administrator Ru Lokinak will lead us in the ritual of docile thanatopsis, since there is no Anointed Elder in the company. Perseus Spur
A docile Labrador dog was tethered five metres away from its owner, who was disguised as a tradesman.
The reality is in the hard hearts and selfish tempers and undocile minds which, in the splendor or the squalidness of wealth, show the sad ruin of self-sufficient success, the pride of life. The world's great sermons, Volume 08 Talmage to Knox Little
But it was an indocile, a scornful, and a sarcastic face - the face of a man difficult to lead, and impossible to drive. Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte
But let him out, the docile beast becomes himself-with nostrils flared, he roars.
I think people enjoy watching an old person who's not sweet, docile or compliant. The Sun
He is described as severe to the stubborn, gentle to the docile, while of those who were scholars after his own heart it is said "Hos sibi conjunxit, docuit, nutrivit, amavit". The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
A state which dwarfs its men,in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished.
Her eyes had never wandered from his face; she had stood in docile wise looking at him and answering his questions and listening, won by the commentary she read in his face on what her friend was saying. The Old Helmet
Unlike John Henry, Uncle Remus was an old, docile, and desexualized African American man who told stories to children.
On both counts, national political leaders will displease their masters: oil supplies will not be adequate nor secure, and the workers will not be docile.
The bullet that pierced Alexis's heart was not a random bullet shot from a cop's gun to the body of an 'indocile' kid. Anarkismo.net
This is nowhere more marked than in relations with the US, where European policy swings between docile subservience and opportunistic pouting from the sidelines, forever falling short of the happy mean of assured self-confidence. That famous European diplomacy
A state which dwarfs its men,in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished.
The iris of her large dark eye had the melting mezzotinto, which remains the last vestige of African ancestry, and gives that plaintive expression, so often observed, and so appropriate to that docile and injured race. Clotel; or, The President's Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United States. By William Wells Brown, A Fugitive Slave, Author of "Three Years in Europe." With a Sketch of the Author's Life

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