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How to use submissive in a sentence

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Girls grew up knowing that they had to be hardworking and submissive so that they could find good husbands who would take good care of them.
How does God begin and carry forward his submissive prostration of the soul, before his awful justice?
A sweet and submissive mantrap, Irina ultimately makes away with an art collection, most of the petty cash, and the show.
When a mandrill bares its teeth, it is not threatening to attack, but rather showing a submissive behavior.
She may advocate a matriarchy, but it is a matriarchy where leaders remain irreproachably ladylike, and therefore ultimately submissive to men.
Steve had played games with her mind, and she had been meek and submissive.
Is it that they only want to find a submissive wife who will bear children and become homemakers?
This was something Auria would do, not me, her sensible, level headed, mousy sister who was submissive and docile.
She offers new interpretations of the masochistic body art of the 1970s, exploring associations with the submissive suffering of Christ.
Bacon emphasized that this ordeal of experiment was to be heroic testing, not the torture of a slavish and submissive victim.
The departing male flaps off with an unusual gliding rhythm that Kemp suspects is a loser butterfly's submissive slink.
You don't have to be a unidimensional creature forever rebelling or forever submissive.
At the feast which follows the three bridegrooms wager on whose wife is the most docile and submissive.
The old, spunky Madeline was gone and in her place was the submissive shadow of her former self.
Dee believed the Angels to be obedient servants of God, submissive to the authority of Christ.
At times she is combative, at times submissive, according to the situation and her state of mind.
Historically, such a profoundly submissive capitulation, as took place in the Soviet case, was a rarity.
The prisoners were all perfectly submissive and paid every deference to the wishes of those in whose custody they were placed.
He shows that slaves who seemed submissive and passive were cleverly using the language of their masters and subverting it to their own ends.
If it is sweet, servile and submissive, a new dog could bully your first dog into a life of fear and despair.
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Examples from Classical Literature
He was submissive to the abbot, but in the depths of his soul he never ceased to condemn him.
The officers then could not abide him, though some were submissive to him because of his father's position.
He was abjectly in love and abjectly submissive, and Claudia had never been so kind.
With these he thought he could keep the buccaneer contingent in order and submissive.
They, cooping you in the city, lead you to your pleasures, and make you tame and submissive to their hands.
Notwithstanding his high military rank and great services, Dost was very submissive to fatah, who was greatly his senior.
There was something about her eyes not unlike the dog's expression, submissive, but questioning.
It has been questioned, however, whether in this instance he was not too submissive.
And I wait, submissive to His will, for nothing happens unless He wills it.
The heart be submissive, and content to leave the measure and timing of them to Him.
And submissive, where rebelliousness would not have been without excuse.
The archdeacon had in Quasimodo the most submissive slave, the most docile lackey, the most vigilant of dogs.
It was the submissive worship of a devotee before some sacred relic!
Here again the curious submissive nature of the woman was exampled.
I had seized a mere vexing fairy, and found a submissive and supplicating little mortal woman in my arms.
Am I a child to be chidden and rendered submissive by imposing airs?
The one is amiable and submissive, the other choleric and rebellious.
Shall we ever subdue her and make her always submissive and compliant?
If he shows his face near it, mine assumes an imploring and submissive expression.
With shamefaced, submissive mien he sheathes the thin, gleaming blade.
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