Meekly in a sentence

And when England were meekly ejected in the quarter-final by France, the Rugby Football Union decided to make an example of their captain, fining Tindall £25,000 and banishing him from the international squad.

When a local politician razes Sathya’s slum and moves all its dwellers into dangerously shoddy high-rises, our protagonist, to his feisty mother’s great chagrin, prefers to make do meekly than fight back.

Clumps of brown leaves gather around the gallery’s heaters and corners, a bit meekly; there are no pigeon parts, no putrid fluids, the leaves don’t even rustle.

Fantastic, if you are a Chelsea fan or Pochettino, who may have been anticipating an angry text message from the powers that be after surrendering a 2-0 lead so meekly.

National might well expect to regain much of its bedrock support in three years’ time, but it cannot take that for granted — Act and its 10 MPs have no intention of surrendering it meekly.

Pope Francis’ Ben Zaranek denied Messuri a couple times on sparkling chances, including one that squirted through his pads but trickled meekly off the post, and turned away a 2-on-1 in the third, while Nathan Brennan was solid for the Spy Ponders as well.

So the Democratic governors in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania surely wouldn’t meekly accept GOP state legislatures’ plot to swap in their own electors.

They are meekly trying to hide behind the parliamentary procedure to justify it hoping that people of Pakistan can be fooled again and again.

We dont believe what Indian establishment says on issues like surgical strike BUT when a Pak minister denies his statement made in Pak parliament, we meekly accept that.

A week into this, you must return to the original agency and meekly accept the first car in only color and transmission that remain in stock after your fruitless adventure into responsible adulthood.

During an interview with Dutton, Ray Hadley publicly rebukes Liberal ministers as cowards for not tackling Turnbull – and forces Dutton to meekly nod along.

I guess I run the risk of being accused of chauvinism if I meekly ask why the men don’t call the cops or 911. Undeniably, her victims deserve to pay for their inhumanity, but a lot of actual logic goes missing.

We meekly submitted to the other side setting the terms of the conference, did not ask tough questions, did not pursue follow-up questions, and accepted claptrap as truth.

And the "feckless cowards," as Steve Schmidt calls the Republican Party that he used to be a part of, stand by meekly, playing Nero's fiddle while America burns.

A rather disjointed Waterford FC side bowed meekly out of the FAI Cup in the Belfield Bowl on Friday night last.

But he couldn’t maintain that magic in the playoffs, and it was a big part of the reason why the Ducks went out so meekly against the Sharks.

Hemorrhaging penalties at a debilitating rate and failing to make any meaningful impression on the home defence, their rule over Europe ended meekly with the Six Nations trophy that is destined for Dublin sat on the sidelines.

It has meekly, mealy-mouthedly, descended from Mount Sinai to the lowest point on planet Earth.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan should not meekly follow G-7 pressure emanating notably from America and the United Kingdom.

Stockholm syndrome—when a hostage begins to identify with, and feel sympathy for, her captor—is the only possible explanation for the final paragraph of your letter, in which you meekly justify your boyfriend's appalling behavior.