submissive

Example Sentences

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Submissive dogs also pass their head under the chin of dogs to whom they are paying their respects.

From Washington Post • Aug. 12, 2021

Submissive, obedient Cornelia showed another facet as superior of her little group: facing down carpenters and tradespeople, she got the new Society of the Holy Child Jesus off to a strong start.

From Time Magazine Archive

Submissive, gentle, old is she, And keeps her lips from blame of thee, For her, kind lord, of me bereft A sea of whelming woe is left.

From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)

And as, in various pride, she mov'd along, Now charm'd,—now angry with the shouting Throng, Submissive Eunuchs to their Mistress bend, And in shrill warblings hail their only Friend.

From The First of April Or, The Triumphs of Folly: A Poem Dedicated to a Celebrated Duchess. By the author of The Diaboliad. by Combe, William

Leave thou this presence, slave, open the gate; Since power is hers to force an entrance here, Let her come in as come from life the dead, Submissive to the laws of Death's domain.

From Chaldea From the Earliest Times to the Rise of Assyria by Ragozin, Zénaïde A. (Zénaïde Alexeïevna)