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)

Submissive Oscar was taking a peremptory tone with her for the first time in his life.

From Poor Miss Finch by Collins, Wilkie

Submissive, he accepted death or life, the thunder-bolt or the Soma-flower,—the drought that slew its millions or the rain that brought a bounteous harvest.

From Lodges in the Wilderness by Scully, W. C. (William Charles)