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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    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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    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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    She took them docilely; Hannah loaded and lifted the tray.†  (source)
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    Given all the signs that a massacre had been imminent, it seems likely that the commanders had been awaiting instruction on whether or not to carry it out, and had wanted to keep the men docile in case the answer was affirmative.  (source)
    docile = easily led or managed
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