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Sentence Examples The building was a meek, red brick building with several extensions to make up for the growth in attendance every year. In his youth as a young priest in Banada he was a powerful man in stature, but meek and mild as a child. One of the scientists said that when he fed the chemical to lab rats, they would become completely meek and docile. He really believes that women are so meek that we are unable to stand our ground against the onslaught of male debate. Saskia was active and roamed around her cot, lively and feeding hungrily, while Helena was meek, quiet and still. Steve had played games with her mind, and she had been meek and submissive. One can be quiet, meek and fun, while the other snarls, bites and attacks everything. A meek, self-effacing figure, he grows more haggard and needy as his hopes of business success and personal harmony crumble. The plot just requires him to be a meek, timid guy next door who believes in following the rules. As in all sensitive and generous souls, people born into this sign can seem rather meek and timid. When Jesus in the Beatitudes says that the meek shall inherit the earth, he repeats the psalmist's wishful thinking. Together, these mobilizations set a different political tone to the meek, me-too rhetoric of the Democrats. Far from being meek, mild and modest, librarians hide beneath their demure appearance hot and passionate personalities. Renziehausen is a quiet, meek mouse of a soldier with no backbone, and York's performance suggests these qualities very nicely. When war looms large on the horizon, tiny, meek and often unheard voices of children counsel the wisdom of peace. Such is the spirit of meek and unmurmuring submission in which we ought to receive the dispensations of God, however severe and afflictive. At night, this normally meek youth disturbed his fellow novices with violent ravings in his nightmares. A famous maestro is stabbed to death, and a meek violinist is spotted at the scene. Though she was born a rich and spoiled girl, she ends up relatively poor and meek. There is, and always has been, a lot more to women than the meek, submissive weaklings that we have been made out to be throughout the centuries. Show More Sentences That's not to say that I'm little miss meek and mild when it comes to partying with the professionals. In school, we were the meek, the shunned, the clueless, the kids with no social life or social status. It perches its tender comedy on a choice between the maturity that masks a meek acceptance of death, and a spirit that refuses to yield. They were dressed plainly, and their pale pointed faces and weird dark eyes made them look meek and fragile. It sounded like a book that would teach me how to be a proper lady, complete with frilly lace, curtsying and a lot of time spent being meek. Due to these leaders, the lower castes and Dalits are now no longer meek and subdued. One coasts past the 'ghost bike' memorials, fallen soldiers in the silent war between the car drivers and the meek and environmentally conscious. And sonically, how can a record that simultaneously evokes joe meek and dubstep fail to transcend its temporal context? She was a meek and mild kind of lady and she'd just come out of hospital a few weeks back. It was a rather meek cat which did not go anywhere near the goldfish bowl and used the litterbox with admirable regularity. Nietzsche's alpha grandmother and two spinster aunts treated his meek, young mother like a hanger-on. One theorizes that perhaps Darger was replaying arguments he was too meek to engage in during the day. From beginning to end they remained meek and respectful in the presence of their mother and aunt. Her wolfish tail dragged across the ground like a meek puppy, even though her colorless eyes sparkled with strength. A few professors glare at me and I smile a meek apology before turning my attention back to my friends. Robbins plays a more geeky character who is shy and meek, but has a rip-roaring streak in him. On the other hand, religion makes brave valiant men meek tame and cowardly such that they refuse to shed blood even for their motherland. The vicar is distraught, but too meek and mild to withstand his determined churchwarden. She was not surprised, however, at the meek way in which the fallen dictator surrendered. Where your every cell cries out to be meek, you force yourself to be brash. Show More Sentences Possibly he seems a little too meek, and should stand up for himself a bit more. They are ultra-competitive on the field but meek and mild and very polite off the field. Mama is usually very meek and mild, but every once in a while, her true strength surfaces. In the same way that people can be too meek, they can also be too aggressive. What did the Government members on that committee say, in meek, quiet voices? Her bosses are mean to her, she's kind of meek, and doesn't have any friends in the city. The owner rules both workers and family with a rod of iron but one of his daughters rebels by falling in love with his meek shop assistant. I wanted to see who would choose to enter and how mean or meek people would be. Two years later, a repentant Uma wore skin-tight Versace in a meek porridge hue. Make me like in mind to you, as an obedient child, meek and still. Rebecca is a meek young girl who tries to keep in with all her colleagues. It preys on the ignorant, the illiterate, the gullible, and the meek. Sarah smiled and tried to thank Aunt Marcy in a meek, ladylike manner. It's a clarion call to the meek, the mild-mannered and the indecisive. He plays the role of a meek husband who has been emasculated by his domineering wife. This bill came back to the House with a meek and mild penalty regime. They no longer want to deal with you, they want to deal with the meek and mild mums and dads who will sit there and pretty much do what they're told. Toni shook his hand, a firm handshake at that, and gave him a meek smile. But beyond their meek and bland exterior the Smalls inhabit another world. But Kasich will perform some meek tap dance about repeal and replace, leaving the good parts. Show More Sentences It might be meek, and fiercely fought over, compared to the fearful stability and dominance of monarchies and one-party regimes. Simply put, his wild imagination and inexhaustible creative energy might have been the only consolations for a life that seemed destined for meek destitution from the start. Swann lasted just two balls before a meek fend at a Johnson snorter saw the ball fly into the hands of a diving Steve Smith in the slips. Outside of that one encounter, however, Moses is pretty meek. Unremarkably, a meek official response to grant the military authority to arrest civilians, failed to make a dent in the ongoing violence. What if they were wolves instead of lambs? They'd eat her all the sooner if she was meek to them. Fight or be eaten. You must celebrate the peacemakers, the poor at heart, the meek. When confronted by opposition his reaction was to bluster, which often cowed the meek. Penrod's answer, like the look he lifted to the impressive stranger, was meek and placative. Some masters can be quite kind if you're meek and tractable. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me, for I am meek and lowly in heart. Today's upper Danube is but a meek reflection of the ancient one. The Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek. This is true Strength, whose chosen home is still The Soul of man, when with himself at one, His Being's End he strives but to fulfill In meek Lowheartedness. In fact, King was meek and mild when Cecilia eventually introduced him to her new partner David Cooze, with whom she has been living for the last three years. Examples from Classical Literature Learn of Me that I am meek and lowly, and ye shall find rest to your souls. The Bishop is old and meek, and Mr. Groschut thought that he could domineer. Besides, she felt, more subliminally, that he was never so near slipping through her fingers as when he took that meek way. He was as big as a carthorse, as graceful as a dray and as meek as a missionary. His nature, considering what a wife he has got, is inexcusably meek and patient. During the ministry of this meek prelate, Pepin was declared king of France. There was a Miss Wright, a meek little girl, palish, on whom her father doted. Growing alarmed, the Guru also grew meek, and asked only ten rupees and a promise of silence for the performance of a samadhi. He was one of the kind that you naturally would, being sort of meek and spineless. I have committed follies, gentlemen,' said Uriah, looking round with a meek smile, 'and I ought to bear the consequences without repining. Anaxagoras retained his usual bland expression and meek dignity. Bagley was, indeed, as meek as he could be in his manner of inquiry. Of late, since you have listened to the pastorals of that meek corydon! I have nothing more to say,' returned Mrs Wilfer, with a meek renunciatory action of her gloves. The talk of these meek people had a strange enough sound in a formerly American ear. My grandfatherly love and kisses to the Fairy Prattler and the meek boy. Her look of meek despair was hauntingly sad with Anthony on his way home. I don't wonder that girl is such a meek, soft-spoken kind of thing. So here, after all my elaborate preparations for the siege of the White Sphinx, was a meek surrender. But that mild and meek man had a certain strength of pertinacity. Show More Sentences The former was ever meek and feminine, the latter fierce and unsubmissive. Under her influence Fernando promptly became meek and uxorious. This old-maidish attorney was meek and wise, but by no means timid. Sam, in no humour to be meek, made the time-honoured rejoinder. They had not found me so meek and inoffensive as they might have thought! Truly, his one son was a chip off the old block, and Peter Winn had no meek notions concerning the intrinsic value of said old block. Anna Mikhaylovna, with a meek, sorrowful, and all-forgiving expression on her face, stood by the door near the strange lady. As I brushed aside the haze and she was truly seen for the first time, she raised her head, like one caught, and gazed at me with meek affrighted eyes. The meek man was quite willing to concede that, but perhaps it rendered the matter even worse, as showing that there must be something appallingly wrong somewhere. Otter, meek, mediocre, and self-satisfied, wore an air of importance. As you have taken up the cross, and become a follower of good and an eschewer of evil, I trust I shall see you before the altar, with a contrite heart and a meek spirit. This is the way that God teaches us to be meek and patient, and the thought that He has willed it so should rob us of our fears and help us bear the years. We need fewer meek smiles and polite handshakes at the end of tennis matches and more yelling obscenities, kicking over bottles of barley water and biting the umpire. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of meek? Words that rhyme with meek What is the past tense of meek? What is the adverb for meek? What is the adjective for meek? What is the noun for meek? Translations for meek Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words meed meech mee Medway medusoid Medusa's Meek meek and mild meeker meekest meekly meekness 4-letter Words Starting With m me mee