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Docile
"Docile" in a Sentence (13 examples)
The cows looked big and docile.
The horse is very docile and is ideal for beginner riders.
Tom is docile.
Mary's dog is very docile.
I love my sheep, they are so docile and nice.
The grazing lamb is one that begins to graze well just after weaning. In Kabylia, it is generally called the lamb of the old shepherdess, since it is docile and does not frolic. The Kabyle adjective "aksas" also means beautiful and white.
Pet owners sometimes castrate male animals to make them more docile.
Orcas are very docile.
That the sheep be docile is in the wolf's interest.
It's advantageous to a wolf for a sheep to be docile.
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With that he dropped his head again, lamenting over and caressing her, and there was not a sound in all the house for a long, long time; they remaining clasped in one another’s arms, in the glorious sunshine that had crept in with Florence. He dressed himself for going out, with a docile submission to her entreaty; and walking with a feeble gait, and looking back, with a tremble, at the room in which he had been so long shut up, and where he had seen the picture in the glass, passed out with her into the hall.
Harriet certainly was not clever, but she had a sweet, docile, grateful disposition; was totally free from conceit; and only desiring to be guided by any one she looked up to.
Such literature may well be anathema to those, who are too docile and petty for their own good.
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