docile

Example Sentences

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This time they touched down on the back of a thumping 3-0 one-day defeat in New Zealand and criticism over scheduling -- just a single three-day red-ball warm-up on a docile pitch.

From Barron's • Nov. 19, 2025

Lives are altered as the salon workers go about their day braiding the hair of customers who range from docile and caring to feisty and acrimonious.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 7, 2025

Scientists had thought chimps were docile vegetarians, but on this day about three months after her arrival, Goodall spied a group of the apes feasting on something pink.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 1, 2025

An inexperienced attack, the most docile pitch, sun burning hot enough to make statues sweat and a Pakistan captain determined to make up for 10 consecutive winless home matches.

From BBC • Oct. 7, 2024

How Grant Burch pushed docile Philip Phelps over the edge, I'll never learn.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell