Get to know Docile better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like tame or tractable.
Docile in a sentence
Docile meaning
- Ready to accept instruction or direction; obedient; subservient.
- Yielding to control or supervision, direction, or management.
Synonyms of Docile
Using Docile
- The main meaning on this page is: Ready to accept instruction or direction; obedient; subservient. | Yielding to control or supervision, direction, or management.
- Useful related words include: tame, tractable, manipulable, gentle.
- In the example corpus, docile often appears in combinations such as: docile and, and docile, more docile.
Context around Docile
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 13 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 18 statements, 1 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Docile
- In this selection, "docile" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, otherwise, seem, normally, sociable, living and animals stand out and add context to how "docile" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a smaller docile woman starts and a very docile animal or. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "docile" sits close to words such as abidjan, acb and accesses, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with docile
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The base and hybrid versions are calm, efficient cruisers with a docile personality. (13 words)
He is very docile, is keen to work and has a short gestation period. (14 words)
His references show he is a docile, sociable animal that enjoys the company of others. (15 words)
I knew if I had just stayed docile, didn’t rock the boat, teamed up with someone like Sue or teamed up with someone like Caroline, yeah, I would have made it probably to the merge and then I would have been out as soon as the merge hit, right? (50 words)
It’s as if we are under the influence of daily doses of Soma, like the drug in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World used to sedate and control the population, keeping them docile and obedient and preventing any dissent. (40 words)
When I first heard from him that he would be participating in the charity event, I naturally assumed it would be either a very docile animal or some sort of aging bull whose better days were behind him. (38 words)
I knew if I had just stayed docile, didn’t rock the boat, teamed up with someone like Sue or teamed up with someone like Caroline, yeah, I would have made it probably to the merge and then I would have been out as soon as the merge hit, right? (50 words)
I guess eating stolen Cash transfer funds, whilst thinking up the latest lies to feed a docile gullible nation, ba K0Lw3′ baya saana! (23 words)
Example sentences (20)
His references show he is a docile, sociable animal that enjoys the company of others.
Nothing goes according to plan, and chucklef**k chaos ensues, leading to the discovery of a Coleman conspiracy against the otherwise docile living impaired population.
The man who says he created the claims the breed was originally bred to be docile but with a "bodybuilder-like" appearance.
There is also a Black Caucus in the US Congress, but their efforts to protect the lives and rights of black Americans seem docile.
A farmer's daughter who was almost trampled to death by a herd of cows has warned that many people remain oblivious to the dangers posed by the normally docile animals.
Before you know it, the other lady who is a bit of a smaller docile woman starts making snarky comments to the other woman.
Dot may be “the tiger” when cornered, but her new life with the docile Wayne has reinforced the value of kindness and decency.
He is very docile, is keen to work and has a short gestation period.
I knew if I had just stayed docile, didn’t rock the boat, teamed up with someone like Sue or teamed up with someone like Caroline, yeah, I would have made it probably to the merge and then I would have been out as soon as the merge hit, right?
In contrast, Erik, played by Cooper Koch, is docile and meek, heavily implied to be gay.
It’s as if we are under the influence of daily doses of Soma, like the drug in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World used to sedate and control the population, keeping them docile and obedient and preventing any dissent.
One declared that the shabin pig was too docile, which would make catching it easy.
P'nut was notably docile and friendly through the course of his very public facing life.
Soon, all of humanity will be as docile and obedient as this hollow shell, living only to serve their benevolent robot overlord.
The base and hybrid versions are calm, efficient cruisers with a docile personality.
When I first heard from him that he would be participating in the charity event, I naturally assumed it would be either a very docile animal or some sort of aging bull whose better days were behind him.
As unwittingly as it may sound, this ditty is a true reflection of what is on offer to a docile population over the years – say for the last 2 decades.
From Nirupa Roy's docile and ever sacrificing Maa in the 70s to Sridevi's vengeful.
I guess eating stolen Cash transfer funds, whilst thinking up the latest lies to feed a docile gullible nation, ba K0Lw3′ baya saana!
India's current crop are made of sterner stuff, as Australia's quicks learned two years ago when they were battered into submission, admittedly on docile tracks which did not suit the home side's strengths.
Common combinations with docile
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- docile and 13×
- and docile 9×
- more docile 6×
- the docile 4×
- is docile 3×
- docile but 3×
- very docile 3×
- too docile 3×
- docile to 3×
- smaller docile 2×