How to Use acquiescent in a Sentence

acquiescent

adjective

• The acquiescent girl became a strong assertive woman.
• These are highly prized in the worker-bee slot, but not so great in the CEO slot, where this cluster can lead to a tendency to be submissive or acquiescent.
  — Neil Senturia, sandiegouniontribune.com, 2 Oct. 2017
• To depose the son, the opposition had to undermine a fortress state to which many Syrians were loyal, or at least acquiescent.
  — Charles Glass, Harper's magazine, 10 Feb. 2019
• While South Korea, Brazil and Australia have been more acquiescent, most of the world's major powers have rejected his demands.
  — Heather Long and Steven Mufson, chicagotribune.com, 2 June 2018
• After more than three decades in prison, Dailey seemed even-tempered, agreeable, even acquiescent.
  — Pamela Colloff, ProPublica, 4 Dec. 2019
• And Arena has been one of Emanuel's loudest critics on the largely acquiescent City Council, giving the mayor another reason not to come to his aid.
  — John Byrne, chicagotribune.com, 24 May 2017
• Her decision to, through her representation, depict the 28 players as acquiescent and gullible will only widen the gulf.
  — Michael McCann, SI.com, 23 July 2019
• Instead the Democrats and Leftists are quietly acquiescent as these children and their parents are openly attacked for the (different) colors of their skin.
  — Tim Huelskamp, National Review, 15 Oct. 2020
• Still, a cutting-edge cutthroat novel cannot be merely an acquiescent doppelgänger.
  — Cynthia Ozick, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2017
• But its hyperlocal and acquiescent posture mutes public engagement and policy debate on India’s role as the world’s largest democracy.
  — Anjani Jain, Fortune, 23 Mar. 2022
• Teachers unions, which have emerged as a powerful force of opposition to school reopenings in the United States, have generally been more acquiescent in Europe, pushing for safety measures rather than closures.
  — Michael Birnbaum, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Dec. 2020
• Teachers unions, which have emerged as a powerful force of opposition to school reopenings in the United States, have generally been more acquiescent in Europe, pushing for safety measures rather than closures.
  — Michael Birnbaum, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Dec. 2020
• While antigovernment sentiment remains strong and protesters’ demands have widened, the outbreak has cut across political lines in Hong Kong, which has grappled with seven months of pushback against a government viewed as too acquiescent to Beijing.
  — Joyu Wang, WSJ, 31 Jan. 2020
• The fact that Raniere collected kompromat from DOS members strongly suggests that his psychological coercion techniques were not, by themselves, sufficient to keep women acquiescent.
  — Zoë Heller, The New Yorker, 5 July 2021
• Strict emotional regulation is maintained over these relationships, which include a long affair with a married woman whose husband is affably acquiescent.
  — Tim Parks, The New York Review of Books, 24 June 2020
• Israel’s entrenched system of control over the Palestinian territories and its creeping annexation of Palestinian lands, unchecked for years by an acquiescent United States, may only provoke more angry resistance.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 21 May 2021

Last Updated: 17 Oct 2024