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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
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  • 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
  • For 17 years her role had been to stand meekly behind her man handing him the cups and trophies. Times, Sunday Times
  • Two highly disciplined and law-abiding populations meekly submitted to defeat.
  • These two great advantages may be made by those who frequently study poets; — the learning moderation, to keep them from unseasonable and foolish reproaching others with their misfortunes, when they themselves enjoy a constant current of prosperity; and magnanimity, that under variety of accidents they be not dejected nor disturbed, but meekly bear the being scoffed at, reproached, and drolled upon. Essays and Miscellanies
  • Don't meekly communicate your message. Say it with powerful words and conviction.
  • But would Al Gore have entertained for an instant the idea of meekly reporting for this debate and walking past (even figuratively) nameplates that read "O'Reilly," "Hannity," "Hume," and "The FOX All-Stars"? Frank Dwyer: To the Heroes Who Said No to FOX: Uh...You're Welcome
  • [Illustration: LANCELOT COMES OUT OF GUENEVERE'S ROOM] 'Nay, Lancelot,' said the Queen, 'I will never live after your days, but if you are slain I will take my death as meekly as ever did any The Book of Romance
  • The words came out meekly, like I was a little girl lost in the world.
  • _ "Ah, then she felt very solemnly that she was Queen; and moving softly to a chair placed between the Chair of Homage and the altar, she knelt down on the" faldstool "before it, and meekly said her prayers. Queen Victoria, her girlhood and womanhood
  • `Mildred... "Sarah Ellis had raised a hand, meekly, as though to remonstrate gently with her companion, calm her down. A TROUT IN THE MILK
  • There was of course, as already touched upon, disputation, for all these men were original thinkers, not likely to follow-my-leader meekly or mouth the unthinking slogans of conventional wisdom. Guilds and the Faith: An Introduction to The Guild State
  • I meekly stuffed the meter with pound coins to the maximum permitted amount and we commenced shifting boxes and bags.
  • Into a comfortably-furnished room on the right, she is ushered by a man meekly dressed, and whose countenance wears an expression of melancholy. An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith
  • And did you give in meekly to a morbid whim like that?" asked Eric impatiently. Kilmeny of the Orchard
  • Mrs. Graves breathed Mrs. Hall's name meekly to her husband. Tess of the Storm Country
  • In a choice between meekly obeying his commands and being publicly humiliated there really was no choice.
  • The pathetic servant boy came scampering back in the room in a few moments, meekly holding up a clipboard of papers and a pen.
  • ‘Yes, nurse,’ Dann replied meekly, grinning at her despite his pale, haggard look.
  • Come in!" called a gruff voice, and feeling very much as if he were going to have a tooth out, Ben meekly followed the good woman, who put on her pleasantest smile, anxious to make the best possible impression. St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, January 1878, No. 3
  • What is more surprising, and indeed an abnegation of the responsibilities of leadership, is when politicians - local and national - are prepared to ignore the evidence and meekly go along with the unreasonable demands of the industry.
  • The whole peasant outlook precluded them from meekly submitting to the dictates of the market.
  • England reached the quarterfinals, where they lost meekly to France. Times, Sunday Times
  • He meekly obeys when he is told by this blowsy female partner to take a small child on a visit to his mother in a distant town.
  • Today's Conservative Party are meekly copying his method - refusing to pledge tax cuts and parroting Labour's spending bonanza pledge on schools and hospitals.
  • That means challenging Scots to better themselves instead of meekly accepting shoddy and second-rate services.
  • The rest of us meekly try to tune it out.
  • He stood aside meekly when the new policy was proposed.
  • Jon shuffles meekly onto the stage, clearly uncomfortable, barel ... fauverism Ctrl-V (Shitting a brick) jacklail ATLANTA (AP) _ People who sleep fewer than six hours a night -- or more than nine -- are more likely to be obese. jbrotherlove my last Ctrl-V = are you a good kisser jeffarena and by kick butt, i mean getting stomped by 12yr olds online. kenlotich sootiest Paste to Win! (A Twitter Contest) - Anil Dash
  • He just sits there meekly, gazing out the window.
  • On a micro level, the professionals to whom we meekly doffed our caps in the past have effectively been put in the dock: your local TD, priest, doctor, banker and now your trusty Garda.
  • Don't meekly communicate your message. Say it with powerful words and conviction.
  • O'Halloran also expressed anger at UnionsWA for meekly accepting the new proposals.
  • Instead, you stand meekly, wearing your most hopeful expression, vainly attempting to read the seating plan upside down.
  • Then I did meekly remind her of her flirtatious preferences for the young beef-witted London chaps, and her incertitude and disdainful capriciousness towards myself, who was not a beetlehead or an obtuse, but a cultivated native gentleman with high-class university degree, and an oratorical flow of language which was infallibly to land me upon the pinnacle of some tip-top judicial preferment in the Calcutta High Court of Justice. Baboo Jabberjee, B.A.
  • ‘Er, hi Corina’, I greeted her meekly, my bowels loosening slightly.
  • Loneliness and sense of rejection schedules. develop from seeking and expecting meekly or rejecting This is why family members weren't in dilemma arrogantly due to our narrowness! Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • But she rallied to her support that faith that had never failed and meekly said farewell to her whom she has mortalized in verse as her dear "Heart-Sister. Homespun Heroines and Other Women of Distinction Compiled and edited by Hallie Q. Brown 250 p., ill.
  • They will not meekly give up their power simply because of a few million crosses on pieces of paper.
  • _Gradely_ (graithly) means willingly, meekly or decently; _clem_ means starve; _sithee_ is see you or look you; _clogs_ are shoes with wooden soles and leather uppers, and _dungarees_, garments of coarse cotton cloth rather like overalls. The Atlantic Book of Modern Plays
  • Too many bands just stand there, meekly playing their songs without ever bothering to say a word to the crowd or act engaged.
  • And forward thinking from another master of mind games means there is no sign of them meekly handing over their crown. The Sun
  • And forward thinking from another master of mind games means there is no sign of them meekly handing over their crown. The Sun
  • He was not, however, a man capable of lending himself meekly to schemes of greed, however wilily they were cloaked. Cecil Rhodes Man and Empire-Maker
  • The whole life of the person come down be destine and meekly tolerate insult negative heavy, be want continuously of with desire aggro, particularly man, ever smoke cigarette of man!
  • They all soaked in the steaming water that bubbled up from an underground stream, meekly choosing one of the more temperate baths after the moon-faced manager warned that only hardened veterans—those who stayed for more than a week—could brave the premium pools. A Covert Affair
  • Catholic priests and other ministers have taken vows of poverty or vowed to live meekly.
  • meekly bowed to his wishes
  • A young girl meekly played a pipe-organ to one side of the apse.
  • I didn't travel thousands of miles with a seasick infant to enter meekly.
  • Also there were all Rose's queer black sheep who yielded meekly to her ribbon-wreathed crook, though they "butted" against George's methods. The Guests Of Hercules
  • I meekly asked again for a pint and slunk away from the bar.
  • Jarvis meekly swallowed the remains of his coffee, and trotted after Benedict. A DEATH IN TIME
  • I meekly nodded my head, now fully aware of how I was leaning on Vince.
  • Most of the artistic terrain here has been mapped out by the trailblazers of past generations, yet these contemporary artists seem satisfied to meekly follow along this well-worn path.
  • The cat goes around meekly, crying "mew," while the rest dance around her. Games For All Occasions
  • Two weeks ago, the world marched meekly into the year 2003.
  • `Mildred... "Sarah Ellis had raised a hand, meekly, as though to remonstrate gently with her companion, calm her down. A TROUT IN THE MILK
  • Mrs. Williams responded meekly enough but I was sure the moment I was gone the kitchen maids and housemaids would be treated to a rant.
  • Although frustrated, the man meekly returned the offending piece back to its stand.
  • WHISTLER In his fourth Olympics, U.S. biathlon veteran Jay Hakkinen was determined not to let his team go out meekly from a disappointing Games. After disappointing Olympics, U.S. biathletes look forward
  • I meekly told her about the chewiness of the meat.
  • Running a hand through her hair, the girl finished off the last undone button on her dress and opened the door, meekly letting Amelia in.
  • vintner" and "peddler" of his objurgations, and meekly whispers into his ear with the air of a conspirator reporting a plot to his chief. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875
  • The uncertainty almost costs him his wicket when he comes meekly half-forward to ball that kisses the inside edge, thuds into the pad and falls inches short of a diving Cook. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
  • Do they assume that women who practise faith are a docile lot, meekly swallowing the built-in injustices in their respective religions?
  • Would you rather she just sat there, head downcast, assuming a suitably downtrodden, meekly supplicating air for you?
  • The manicurist was a lithe, tall girl, with a small young, wicked face; and meekly demure. Married Life The True Romance
  • Douglas would surrender the title meekly to Evander Holyfield eight months later and be remembered as a curiosity rather than a great champion - much as James J Braddock, the original "Cinderella Man" would be remembered after beating Max Baer to win the title in 1936, then losing it to Joe Louis in his first defence two years later. Sport news, comment and results | guardian.co.uk
  • It was as if those gifts sat meekly inside her heart with eyes downcast and wearing a hat. Christianity Today
  • The visitors who hail from Perth in Western Australia possibly found the lack of bounce and pace in the wicket a problem and folded up rather meekly.
  • The two churches of Vaccarizza, dark and unclean structures, stand side by side, and I was shown through them by their respective priests, Greek and Catholic, who walked arm in arm in friendly wise, and meekly smiled at a running fire of sarcastic observations on the part of another citizen directed against the "bottega" in general -- the _shop, _ as the church is sometimes irreverently called. Old Calabria
  • His lordship is meekly going to dine at an eightpenny ordinary, his giants in pawn, his men in armor dwindled to “one poor knight,” his carriage to be sold, his stalwart aldermen vanished, his sheriffs, alas! and alas! in gaol! George Cruikshank
  • Then he kneeled down and called meekly upon God and said: O The Golden Legend, vol. 7
  • Yes, Miss Parker," said Belinda, meekly, and began to make a little sketch of the teacher on her blotting-pad. The Second Form at Malory Towers
  • Moving forward on his hands and knees, he peered over the edge meekly.
  • Alex followed behind him meekly, feeling dumb for her childish outburst.
  • I stagger meekly to the indoor bar with my bag of flyers.
  • 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.
  • Mrs. Andelin meekly endured the cruel reproaches levelled at her by indoctrinated feminists who thought they knew how this world should be run. Tribute to Helen
  • The development community was too entrenched for it to meekly give up its position without either a fight or an attempt at adaptation.
  • `Mildred... "Sarah Ellis had raised a hand, meekly, as though to remonstrate gently with her companion, calm her down. A TROUT IN THE MILK
  • Swinging her leg off the black, leather seat, she meekly pulled down her skirt which had hiked up to her upper thighs.
  • He stood aside meekly when the new policy was proposed.
  • Behind her, Jenny stood meekly and her eyes shone with sympathy.

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