How to Use docile in a Sentence

docile

adjective

• His students were docile and eager to learn.
• Join the gang, the rough and tough AI says to the polite and docile AI.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2022
• Well, the large and docile creatures carry a lot of blood.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 13 June 2023
• These are not docile pets — and the ravenmaster bared the scars of nasty bites.
  — William Booth, The Seattle Times, 26 Oct. 2018
• More than once, she's replied that the bees are very gentle and docile.
  — Lydia Wang, refinery29.com, 4 June 2021
• Only the elderly and the very docile are left in the villages.
  — Alexia Fernández Campbell, Vox, 24 Oct. 2018
• Frankly, Tiger’s crowds have become a lot more docile than the weather.
  — Marcus Hayes, Philly.com, 15 June 2018
• There were reports that she had been jailed inside the Zabeel Palace and kept docile with drugs.
  — Joshua Hammer, Town & Country, 4 Jan. 2022
• The last vestige of docile flirtation in the flurry of cores.
  — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 25 Apr. 2024
• Will Speaker Nancy Pelosi now herd them across it like a docile flock of lambs?
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 31 July 2022
• Esther eats and becomes more docile and keeps her tongue, much to the chagrin of the other Aunts.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 10 June 2021
• Sheep—docile, ravenous and just the right height—easily smoked the field.
  — Amrith Ramkumar, WSJ, 5 Sep. 2022
• In the near future, the Ilori aliens take over Earth and outlaw all art in order to keep humans docile.
  — Hanif Abdurraqib, BostonGlobe.com, 10 June 2022
• The trainers own three brown bears but only one, Mischa, is docile enough for shows.
  — Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2019
• The meatpackers have joined hands to funnel cheap, docile labor to these places.
  — NBC News, 10 Jan. 2020
• This time around, his co-partisans are even more docile.
  — Catherine Rampell, Washington Post, 18 June 2024
• Drive with a lackadaisical right foot and the crossover is docile and well-tempered.
  — Michael Harley, Robb Report, 27 July 2021
• This print shows a bison crossing the road, in that carefree kind of way only a giant (and docile) beast of the west can.
  — Mark Stock, Men's Health, 11 Nov. 2022
• Girls are supposed to be more docile and not as exploratory as boys.
  — Samantha Schmidt, Washington Post, 23 July 2019
• Some of the qualities that show pigs need to be successful are to obey commands and be docile.
  — Mayra Cruz, Houston Chronicle, 27 Jan. 2018
• Early on, the mainstream press was docile in its coverage of the war on terror.
  — Simon Van Zuylen-Wood, Daily Intelligencer, 21 Jan. 2018
• The stowaway swarm had snaked its way across the water to freedom—only to roost in one corner of the table in a docile clump.
  — Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 June 2021
• Cradduck stressed that longhorns in general are smart and docile.
  — René A. Guzman, San Antonio Express-News, 18 Feb. 2021
• The Sacramento and American Rivers were low and docile.
  — James Ross Gardner, The New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2023
• What is stubborn and disciplined one day is too docile the next.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 28 Apr. 2021
• And even Martin Luther King Jr., the nonviolent leader of the 1960s, was more than a docile man on grainy black and white footage.
  — Solomon Jones, Philly.com, 4 July 2017
• In the front seat Vierheller holds the docile boy friend of his discontent passenger.
  — Glen Barber, The Denver Post, 9 June 2017
• And while the world has condemned his disappearance, the US has remained quite docile.
  — Alex Ward, Vox, 18 Oct. 2018
• Over time, beekeepers have kept hives that are more docile and exterminated bees that show aggressive tendencies in an effort to keep the majority of wild bees calm.
  — Sandra McDonald, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2024
• Nobody, a box office hit in 2021, followed Hutch Mansell (Odenkirk), a docile family man who slowly reveals his true character after his house gets burgled, leading him into a bloody war with a Russian crime boss.
  — Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 31 July 2024

Last Updated: 21 Nov 2024