Sentence for docile | Use docile in a sentence

Docile example sentences. The sentences below are ordered by length from shorter and easier to longer and more complex. They use docile in a sentence, providing visitors a sentence for docile.

  • He is docile. (10)
  • Veree docile potentate. (8)
  • Sullivan Smith, unbridled in the middle of dinner, was docile to her. (10)
  • She might, Willoughby thought, have let herself be led; she was not docile. (10)
  • Whether this was so or not, it is certain that she was as docile and as biddable as need be. (9)
  • Under my direction, you have shown yourself faithful, docile, patient, intelligent beyond anything I have seen. (9)
  • Rhoda gave him the assurance, and he turned and went upstairs with her, docile at the prospect of hours to be passed in the sunlight. (10)
  • Rhoda gave him the assurance, and he turned and went upstairs with her, docile at the prospect of hours to be passed in the sunlight. (22)
  • But with his amiability and dread of notoriety he remained to all appearance a well-bred, docile creature, and he kept his judgments to himself. (8)
  • The editor cannot always give his reasons; however strongly he may feel them, but the contributor, if sufficiently docile, can always divine them. (9)
  • During the next few days she sometimes appeared more cheerful and docile, sometimes more dull and troubled than her household companions had ever seen her. (5)

Also see sentences for: apt, bright, deferential, domesticated, dull, dutiful, gentle.

Definition of docile:

  • docile, d’sl, or dos’il, adj. teachable: ready to learn: easily managed | (_obs._) doc’ible. | ns. doc’ibleness, docil’ity, teachableness. | adj. d’cious (_u.s._). | n. doc’ity. (0)

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