Sample Sentences for
docile
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    The sleddogs are docile and trainable.
    docile = easily led and managed
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    Despite their appearance, they are actually quite docile.  (source)
    docile = easily managed
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    Still dazed, Hannah accepted the miracle and the prospect of a journey like a docile child.  (source)
    docile = easily led or managed
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    And miraculously — inexplicably — the snake slumped to the floor, docile as a thick, black garden hose, its eyes now on Harry.  (source)
    docile = easily managed
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    From my infancy I was noted for the docility and humanity of my disposition.  (source)
    docility = tendency to behave
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    As the days went by, other dogs came, in crates and at the ends of ropes, some docilely, and some raging and roaring as he had come;  (source)
    docilely = in an easily managed manner
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    I did not like to play with Third Wife's daughters, who were as docile and dull as their mother.  (source)
    docile = submissive (easily managed)
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    Work, comportment, demonstrations of compliance or docility, however— these things counted toward your ranking and were never far from Desmond's attention.†  (source)
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    She was quite sure (or only hopeful) that she wasn't that weak, not that liable to fall docilely into the complacent expectations of parents, friends, and even herself.†  (source)
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    Aziza watched the proceedings with a docile look.  (source)
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    In docility he held his eyes stiffly wide; they fixed themselves on the woman's clasped hands as though she held the cord they were strung on.†  (source)
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    And through it all she had Karenin lying docilely at her feet.†  (source)
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    She had built that business, with all those people working for her, and it dwarfed my father's business, and all the other businesses in the whole town; she, that docile woman, had a power in her the rest of us couldn't contemplate.  (source)
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