How to Use meek in a Sentence

meek

adjective

• She may seem meek and mild but it is all an act.
• The brand name is off to the side, a bit meek next to the iconic globe.
  — Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN, 28 Mar. 2023
• Alas, Sanchez couldn’t hold his swing on a 3-0 changeup, and his meek grounder to short killed the threat.
  — Jorge L. Ortiz, USA TODAY, 20 Oct. 2017
• Sweeney plays against type as a meek, dowdy wife fighting to find her voice.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 8 Sep. 2024
• Waris, meek but still alert, answers as Shokeen and Nafis try to hide their bloody faces.
  — Pranshu Verma, Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2023
• The Cooks had found that telling a lie that made them look meek and foolish was sometimes their best bet.
  — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2019
• This is not a color for the meek, and fabric styles are equally bold these days.
  — Erin Hayes Burt, Dallas News, 13 June 2023
• The Giants’ meek offense was a big factor, as Bochy couldn’t waste even the faintest threat of a rally.
  — Ron Kroichick, SFChronicle.com, 24 June 2019
• O’Rourke’s looseness left him looking washed out and meek.
  — Gilbert Garcia, ExpressNews.com, 28 June 2019
• But growth is meek, which could be a sign of consumer skittishness.
  — Jonathan Lansner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Mar. 2024
• The good news is that doddering Frank and meek little Mary come to life when needed most.
  — David Coddon, sandiegouniontribune.com, 15 Apr. 2018
• To some, the sea seemed too large, too immutable, to do something so meek as disappear.
  — Brooke Jarvis, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2024
• Kaprizov hasn’t scored since Game 1 and Boldy has mustered a meek three points during the series.
  — Brad Townsend, Dallas News, 27 Apr. 2023
• The paintings, yes, thwart the racist stereotype that Asian women are meek and docile, but that’s not a statement Ba is trying to make.
  — Ann Binlot, ARTnews.com, 5 Sep. 2024
• Even the meekest public gestures can land a person in jail.
  — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 15 June 2023
• Woodley's performance as Jane, the meek new mom in town with a dark past, was less showy and more internal than a lot of BLL.
  — Emma Dibdin, Marie Claire, 13 Sep. 2017
• This was the strange, 55 million year old world of the early Eocene – giant birds ruled the land while the precursors of modern mammals were still small and meek.
  — Brian Switek, WIRED, 8 Nov. 2011
• Hazan climbed high on the windblown beach and held the female pup up, allowing its meek calls to project over the clamoring waves.
  — Dino Grandoni and Melina Mara, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Sep. 2023
• During their time in the Bay Area, these descriptions were aided by the contrast of the meeker, wealthier, whiter 49er fans across the bay.
  — Caille Millner, SFChronicle.com, 20 Dec. 2019
• Sanders rejected the idea that Trump's plan was modest, meek and hardly the bold action of a man who had vowed to be a leader like no other.
  — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 12 Mar. 2018
• The Little Mermaid‘s China earnings are meek by any measure.
  — Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 May 2023
• These top musicians — celebrities, stars — were meek as lambs before the maestro, and a little scared, too.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 9 Jan. 2020
• That’s why his meek performance in Game 4 was so surprising.
  — oregonlive, 31 May 2021
• Richards said, speaking in a meek voice, before she was sentenced in federal court in Fort Lauderdale.
  — Paula McMahon, Sun-Sentinel.com, 7 June 2017
• At the same time, this California dip seems meek using a national lens.
  — Jonathan Lansner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 May 2024
• To build goodwill for the project, the representatives, a pair of meek city dwellers, deploy banal commercialese to make their case.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 June 2024
• Kurosawa’s hero, a meek civil servant, took stock of his mortality and decided to waste not a drop of the time that remained.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 12 July 2019
• Jesus’ words regarding those who would harm children are not gentle, meek, or mild.
  — Bill Keane, Hartford Courant, 10 Mar. 2024
• All of them, from the defense minister to the nation’s top spies, have kept silent in the last few days, appearing meek and exhausted in a meeting with Putin on Monday.
  — Simon Shuster, Time, 27 June 2023
• But a meek surrender in West London saw the opportunity pass them by.
  — Zak Garner-Purkis, Forbes, 29 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 4 Dec 2024