meekly

How To Use meekly In A Sentence

• Just a reminder - expenditure on staff costs and consumables is ‘spending’, not ‘investment’, and just because Nu-Labour persists in miscalling it as spending, it doesn't mean we have to accept meekly their attempts to confuse the issue.
• Eustace smiled meekly, but answered somewhat venomously nevertheless — “I, at least, am certain that I speak the truth, when I call my patroness a virgin undefiled.” Westward Ho!
• It was fresh from the oven," explained Martin meekly. Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard
• Dennitzans didn't react to overbearingness as meekly as citizens of the inner Empire were wont to. A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows
• As you say," said Myrtella meekly; then with a sudden flare, "though it does look like I might be trusted one more day to finish up the general cleaning and git after the ashman for not emptyin 'them barrels. A Romance of Billy-Goat Hill
• When the matron of an African orphan farm decided that the soft-hearted bachelor Mr J L B Matekoni adopt two of her charges, one in a wheelchair, he meekly agreed.
• Two highly disciplined and law-abiding populations meekly submitted to defeat.
• Yet still, while the years passed, he waited, -- listening -- listening -- listening; a kindly, simple old man with mystical brown eyes, believing meekly in his own unworth to hear again that Sound from Heaven, as of a rushing, mighty wind, that had filled the London Chapel, bowing human souls before it as a great wind bows the standing corn! The Voice
• We trooped meekly through the tastefully-decorated room crowded with happy diners, towards the fish tank at the back.
• 'It was fresh from the oven,' explained Martin meekly. Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard