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Example sentences for: docile

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

He envisioned the parent as the "friendly boss," vigilantly and solicitously manipulating a naturally docile child.
Three years later, Stanley Elkins published the equally monumental Slavery . Though a liberal like Stampp, Elkins accepted the notion of the docile, contented Sambo--though hardly as evidence of slavery's mildness.
In the colleges, where the teen-age students were bigger and less docile, violence was even worse.
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.
It makes one nostalgic for the fear of LSD in the water, fluoride in the water, and saltpeter in the cafeteria food, presumably to create a docile population of human slaves with excellent teeth who keep hallucinating that they're uninterested in sex.