How to Use submissive in a Sentence

submissive

adjective

• Chin takes a cleaver to the stereotype of the submissive Asian girl.
  — Alamin Yohannes, EW.com, 25 May 2021
• The priest played the submissive role, even agreeing to drink Crist's urine, the suit charged.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 14 Dec. 2015
• The band maintained that in the home, women should be submissive to their husbands.
  — Leah Sottile, Longreads, 20 July 2019
• They were taught to be obedient and submissive, even as they were abused.
  — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 June 2022
• On one side, they’d be too weak and submissive; on the other, too scolding or tedious.
  — James Fallows, The Atlantic, 26 Sep. 2016
• Offred is submissive and free from the struggles that come with fighting against the Gilead machine.
  — refinery29.com, 9 May 2018
• The brand also implies that girls should be sweet and submissive, and should expect a man to come to their rescue in an act of love at first sight.
  — Valentina Zarya, Fortune, 30 Oct. 2017
• People today place a high value on their choices, and as a result, the era of the submissive consumer has come to an end.
  — Ildeme Mahinay Koch, Forbes, 13 May 2022
• Let nature take its course, and a pack of dogs will sort itself into the dominant and submissive roles.
  — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 31 July 2021
• Caretakers at the zoo described him as small and submissive.
  — Sara Harrison, Wired, 28 Oct. 2021
• There have been charges that women in People of Praise are encouraged to be submissive.
  — Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 24 Sep. 2020
• Whines, Yelps, and Pups in Distress Coyotes make yelps and whines when being submissive or in distress.
  — Jay Cassell, Field & Stream, 21 June 2023
• Submissive or insecure dogs will tend to hide any marks of their presence.
  — Answer Fella, Esquire, 27 Feb. 2006
• Similar to Alexa and Siri, such robots are docile, submissive, and designed to please.
  — Harper’s Magazine , 22 June 2022
• Either of us could play a submissive or a dominant role, depending on the mood.
  — Laura Roscioli, refinery29.com, 22 Jan. 2024
• We were tied down to society's ignorant idea of us -- submissive and silent.
  — Sherry Cola, CNN, 15 Apr. 2021
• Treat yourself to foot massages (or find a submissive eager to service you).
  — Sophie Saint Thomas, Allure, 25 Oct. 2017
• Duvall’s acting in the film has been criticized for being over-the-top, and her character has been called weak and submissive.
  — Kelsey Ables, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Apr. 2022
• Her other cat, normally submissive to Lenny, has been hissing and snarling at him.
  — Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Nov. 2019
• Corlys bends the knee, but it’s the coughing, exhausted Viserys who is looking submissive.
  — Omar L. Gallaga, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2022
• Here’s this fleecy white creature, submissive and prepared for the bloodbath soon to come, a pure being, elevated far above the muck.
  — Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2022
• As recently as 2015, women’s rights activists in Cambodia have sought to keep the code, which calls for women to be submissive to men, out of schools.
  — Lily Puckett, Teen Vogue, 11 Oct. 2017
• Bondage is frequently part of impact play, as tying up the submissive, who then consensually can't move, adds to the thrill of the scene.
  — Sophie Saint Thomas, Allure, 1 May 2019
• Muse pushes back on the perception of muses as submissive, a blank canvas rather than one bursting with ideas.
  — Elizabeth Djinis, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 May 2022
• Among other things, the Danvers Statement affirmed the submissive role of women.
  — Susan M. Shaw, The Conversation, 13 Apr. 2021
• The size of the protests suggests a strong challenge to India’s historic fatalism about the role of girls and women as weak, submissive, or expendable.
  — The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Apr. 2018
• Christianity makes the willing and submissive execution of a criminal at the hands of the state the center of the universe.
  — Cameron Hilditch, National Review, 10 May 2021
• She’s not the typical shy, submissive Asian girl that people might expect.
  — Lucia Ruan, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Aug. 2022
• 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
• Europe remained submissive in exchange for a spot underneath the U.S. defense umbrella.
  — Alina Polyakova, Foreign Affairs, 11 June 2019

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024