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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.”
Two days earlier, Hugo Young, chief columnist of the liberal Guardian and normally very sympathetic to Blair, had written: "What is unfolding between London and Washington shows the same submissive respect by the lesser for the stronger partner as prevailed in the Reagan-Thatcher years, highlighted now by Britain's solitary, potentially catastrophic, part in a joint venture against Iraq."
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.