Example sentences for: docile

How can you use “docile” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In Diana's case, that's easy, because her husband happened to be an equally self-involved prince who clearly married her because he thought she would be a docile breeder.

  • People do play against type from time to time, but the charge that Reno has suddenly become a docile tool of the White House simply doesn't wash.

  • Fed a compelling diet of music and images, the consultant and the producer agree, a docile and credulous public will go for just about anything.

  • He envisioned the parent as the "friendly boss," vigilantly and solicitously manipulating a naturally docile child.

  • In the colleges, where the teen-age students were bigger and less docile, violence was even worse.


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