How to Use docile in a Sentence

docile

adjective

• His students were docile and eager to learn.
• Which would be a good docile breed?
  — Dr. John De Jong, Boston Herald, 30 Nov. 2025
• More than once, she's replied that the bees are very gentle and docile.
  — Lydia Wang, refinery29.com, 4 June 2021
• These are not docile pets — and the ravenmaster bared the scars of nasty bites.
  — William Booth, The Seattle Times, 26 Oct. 2018
• Hunters killed the birds for meat, shooting or even clubbing the docile birds to death.
  — Robert McCoppin, Chicago Tribune, 19 June 2025
• What is stubborn and disciplined one day is too docile the next.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 28 Apr. 2021
• Girls are supposed to be more docile and not as exploratory as boys.
  — Samantha Schmidt, Washington Post, 23 July 2019
• Frankly, Tiger’s crowds have become a lot more docile than the weather.
  — Marcus Hayes, Philly.com, 15 June 2018
• Bullmastiffs are docile at home and fearless at work.
  — Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Aug. 2025
• Cradduck stressed that longhorns in general are smart and docile.
  — René A. Guzman, San Antonio Express-News, 18 Feb. 2021
• Why are Japanese crowds so docile?
  — Ian Buruma, New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2026
• This is a treat that many wee Britons had on Fridays to keep them docile all week.
  — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 26 Sep. 2025
• Most days, these cattle live out docile, carefree lives on the ranch, grazing on tall grass.
  — Phillip Valys, Sun Sentinel, 15 Mar. 2025
• Only the elderly and the very docile are left in the villages.
  — Alexia Fernández Campbell, Vox, 24 Oct. 2018
• The last vestige of docile flirtation in the flurry of cores.
  — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 25 Apr. 2024
• This time around, Venus in Aries will be more docile and less rambunctious.
  — Lisa Stardust, Refinery29, 28 Apr. 2025
• Drive with a lackadaisical right foot and the crossover is docile and well-tempered.
  — Michael Harley, Robb Report, 27 July 2021
• The meatpackers have joined hands to funnel cheap, docile labor to these places.
  — NBC News, 10 Jan. 2020
• In years past, the Leafs’ crease has featured docile and aloof characters.
  — Joshua Kloke, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2025
• The trainers own three brown bears but only one, Mischa, is docile enough for shows.
  — Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2019
• Sheep—docile, ravenous and just the right height—easily smoked the field.
  — Amrith Ramkumar, WSJ, 5 Sep. 2022
• There were reports that she had been jailed inside the Zabeel Palace and kept docile with drugs.
  — Joshua Hammer, Town & Country, 4 Jan. 2022
• There were reports that she had been jailed inside the Zabeel Palace and kept docile with drugs.
  — Joshua Hammer, Town & Country, 4 Jan. 2022
• Early on, the mainstream press was docile in its coverage of the war on terror.
  — Simon Van Zuylen-Wood, Daily Intelligencer, 21 Jan. 2018
• Some of the qualities that show pigs need to be successful are to obey commands and be docile.
  — Mayra Cruz, Houston Chronicle, 27 Jan. 2018
• So is Cliven Bundy really just an old, docile cow, like his lawyer says?
  — Leah Sottile, Longreads, 15 May 2018
• Will Speaker Nancy Pelosi now herd them across it like a docile flock of lambs?
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 31 July 2022
• Join the gang, the rough and tough AI says to the polite and docile AI.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2022
• And the receiver comes off as agreeable off the field — without being docile.
  — Luca Evans, Denver Post, 22 Mar. 2026
• Esther eats and becomes more docile and keeps her tongue, much to the chagrin of the other Aunts.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 10 June 2021