How to Use docile in a Sentence

docile

adjective

• His students were docile and eager to learn.
• Well, the large and docile creatures carry a lot of blood.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 13 June 2023
• Only the elderly and the very docile are left in the villages.
  — Alexia Fernández Campbell, Vox, 24 Oct. 2018
• 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
• Join the gang, the rough and tough AI says to the polite and docile AI.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2022
• Girls are supposed to be more docile and not as exploratory as boys.
  — Samantha Schmidt, Washington Post, 23 July 2019
• Frankly, Tiger’s crowds have become a lot more docile than the weather.
  — Marcus Hayes, Philly.com, 15 June 2018
• What is stubborn and disciplined one day is too docile the next.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 28 Apr. 2021
• 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
• The meatpackers have joined hands to funnel cheap, docile labor to these places.
  — NBC News, 10 Jan. 2020
• Drive with a lackadaisical right foot and the crossover is docile and well-tempered.
  — Michael Harley, Robb Report, 27 July 2021
• Sheep—docile, ravenous and just the right height—easily smoked the field.
  — Amrith Ramkumar, WSJ, 5 Sep. 2022
• Cradduck stressed that longhorns in general are smart and docile.
  — René A. Guzman, San Antonio Express-News, 18 Feb. 2021
• Early on, the mainstream press was docile in its coverage of the war on terror.
  — Simon Van Zuylen-Wood, Daily Intelligencer, 21 Jan. 2018
• Esther eats and becomes more docile and keeps her tongue, much to the chagrin of the other Aunts.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 10 June 2021
• 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 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
• This spray should only be used as a deterrent to an aggressive bear and should not be used to harm docile wildlife.
  — Meg Carney, Field & Stream, 11 Apr. 2023
• 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
• The trainers own three brown bears but only one, Mischa, is docile enough for shows.
  — Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2019
• And the whale shark is a docile scoop feeder, honestly closer to a baleen whale than our mental image of a scary shark.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 18 Aug. 2023
• These docile bugs are remarkably domestic, preferring to spend most of their time in the same patch of soil.
  — Rachel Van Nes, The New Yorker, 12 Feb. 2020
• In the front seat Vierheller holds the docile boy friend of his discontent passenger.
  — Glen Barber, The Denver Post, 9 June 2017
• The tiny toy people with detachable legs, torsos and heads were once simple, with docile smiles and two dots for eyes.
  — Telis Demos, WSJ, 24 Oct. 2022
• Will Speaker Nancy Pelosi now herd them across it like a docile flock of lambs?
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 31 July 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
• There are also large puppets which amaze, such as a running horse and a docile jaguar drinking from an oasis.
  — Philip Potempa, Post-Tribune, 25 July 2017
• Shelter officials say Maxwell is a sweet and docile boy.
  — Rebecca Hennes, Houston Chronicle, 3 Apr. 2020
• Bull rays are mostly docile creatures, but their stinging spine is venomous.
  — New York Times, 25 Nov. 2021

Last Updated: 1 May 2024