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Example sentences for: submissive

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

The emperor flatly turned him down but thanked him for showing such “submissive loyalty in sending this tribute mission.”
Also, a column about "Slaves 'R' Us," a business that recruits submissive men to clean the apartments of dominant women.
that "a husband has more of a chance to keep his marriage together if he is rough and abusive but assertive than if he is kind and considerate but submissive."
Disney's animation studio rebounds from a series of disappointments ( Pocahontas , Hercules ) with a feature based on a Chinese legend about a cross-dressing female warrior, winning praise for featuring a proto-feminist heroine instead of its usual submissive maidens.
"We might tag her submissive or unliberated or what have you, but to my mind she has a grace and dignity all her own, bred by centuries of tradition.