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Sentence Examples Too many bands just stand there, meekly playing their songs without ever bothering to say a word to the crowd or act engaged. They will not meekly give up their power simply because of a few million crosses on pieces of paper. After that the Dogribs paddled quietly up the Greygoose River, and meekly returned to their woodland home. He meekly agreed, and now she has drafted the legislation of a private member's bill herself. That means challenging Scots to better themselves instead of meekly accepting shoddy and second-rate services. The development community was too entrenched for it to meekly give up its position without either a fight or an attempt at adaptation. He meekly obeys when he is told by this blowsy female partner to take a small child on a visit to his mother in a distant town. Running a hand through her hair, the girl finished off the last undone button on her dress and opened the door, meekly letting Amelia in. Would you rather she just sat there, head downcast, assuming a suitably downtrodden, meekly supplicating air for you? He said this snappishly, but the lady answered very meekly that she hadn't thought of them at the time. O'Halloran also expressed anger at UnionsWA for meekly accepting the new proposals. Instead, you stand meekly, wearing your most hopeful expression, vainly attempting to read the seating plan upside down. It's the redheaded stepchild of many a training split, meekly sitting just out of sight as your chest and arms get all the attention. When Bush proclaimed homeland security the main business of the lame-duck session, the Democrats meekly complied. Two highly disciplined and law-abiding populations meekly submitted to defeat. When they were arrested in Indiana, the murderers surrendered meekly after taking one look at the arresting officer. Even Fischer, who has faced most criticism, has meekly put on sackcloth and ashes and done penitence. The pathetic servant boy came scampering back in the room in a few moments, meekly holding up a clipboard of papers and a pen. His persona is by turns clueless, sly and naughty, meekly desperate, monstrously infantile and always theatrically aware of his audience. She followed the captain meekly, and two guards fell in beside her, one on either side. Show More Sentences We trooped meekly through the tastefully-decorated room crowded with happy diners, towards the fish tank at the back. Although frustrated, the man meekly returned the offending piece back to its stand. He lit an oil lamp at the table and replaced the lantern's short, meekly burning candle. I meekly stuffed the meter with pound coins to the maximum permitted amount and we commenced shifting boxes and bags. Swinging her leg off the black, leather seat, she meekly pulled down her skirt which had hiked up to her upper thighs. Do they assume that women who practise faith are a docile lot, meekly swallowing the built-in injustices in their respective religions? Mrs. Williams responded meekly enough but I was sure the moment I was gone the kitchen maids and housemaids would be treated to a rant. The protesting Tibetans, however, surely cannot be expected to accept meekly the crushing of their demonstrations in March. Surely the party can tolerate a few midlevel leaders, especially younger ones, meekly supporting the policy. Despite Euro elite expectations, Italian voters have not meekly submitted to foreign-imposed austerity. In Turkey, the Islamist party meekly allowed the army to shoo it out of government after one lacklustre year. Would we simply wait meekly for the sucker punch that would inevitably come, with the attendant violence and instability? I didn't travel thousands of miles with a seasick infant to enter meekly. Alex followed behind him meekly, feeling dumb for her childish outburst. Moving forward on his hands and knees, he peered over the edge meekly. I meekly nodded my head, now fully aware of how I was leaning on Vince. The words came out meekly, like I was a little girl lost in the world. Senior figures are reluctant to challenge Erdoğan directly but have meekly voiced their reservations. That went when they surrendered so madly and meekly on the final morning of the second Test in Adelaide. You also showed a sheep being led to the slaughterhouse with tears in its eyes and which meekly obeyed because it could not defend itself. Show More Sentences At times women have seemed to bear silently this suffering, meekly accepting it as their lot. I cannot see the European Parliament meekly accepting this sort of thing without a word of criticism. Mrs. Harker grew ghastly white, so that the scar on her forehead seemed to burn, but she folded her hands meekly and looked up in prayer. Or will we just sit idly by and meekly accept whatever the Chinese tell us and simply attend the Olympics? What action should we take? These things follow meekly the fluctuations of environmental uncertainty, but their being is such that it can resist them. It is scandalous that we so meekly surrender our own stance on self-expression. Instead, black models are required to remain meekly, silently off stage, waiting for a turn that may never come. I meekly asked again for a pint and slunk away from the bar. Back then, the lower class, rather than sink meekly into its immiseration, periodically erupted in violent strikes and riots. When the matron of an African orphan farm decided that the soft-hearted bachelor Mr J L B Matekoni adopt two of her charges, one in a wheelchair, he meekly agreed. At least the outside world should know that Tibet had not meekly surrendered. Bob Cratchit, the clerk who is the father of Tiny Tim and who meekly serves Scrooge, is paid fifteen shillings a week. So spooked were they that rather than offer a viable alternative, they meekly fell in line with a hideous policy prescription, a decision that continues to haunt them. The visitors who hail from Perth in Western Australia possibly found the lack of bounce and pace in the wicket a problem and folded up rather meekly. Behind her, Jenny stood meekly and her eyes shone with sympathy. A young girl meekly played a pipe-organ to one side of the apse. Operating the principle of 'divide and rule', Russia is making agreements with stronger states over the heads of weaker ones, and the EU meekly accepts this. They were the pupils who, captivated by the light of my word, meekly followed Me, but who, even so, made errors, for they needed time to transform themselves and thereafter arise as examples for humanity. So brown-noser Blair's finally sold out to Bush, with British citizens meekly sent to the US to face what laughingly passes for American justice. You are issuing approvals, meekly following the advice of the European Food Safety Authority, whose opinion is itself based on toxicity studies conducted by bio-engineering companies. Show More Sentences Mr. Speaker, after the comments from the member for Peterborough I suppose I should meekly get up and say on behalf of Atlantic Canada that we are proud to be part of Canada. The elephants, guided by bullhooks and shouts, would then meekly retire to their allotted places. Suitably chastened, Williams posed, meekly as a cat, and Jane was very amused to hear that he did an impeccable impersonation of her once she had left. Devastated and utterly embarrassed, I meekly raised my hand. As he walked back to his flat after meekly apologising, he wondered why a severe pain in his napper could affect the lead in his pencil. Raging Alex Neil reckons it will take him two days to calm down after his side flopped at Firhill to fall meekly out of the Cup. Now it appears that there is already a Ukip candidate for the Essex seaside town who has no intention of meekly moving aside, which makes a nonsense of Ukip as the activists' party. And time again My bluest lady fair Serenely still passed by And felt her goldlike Hair Ah! here a curlsome smile meekly awhile. Anti-poverty groups have meekly sidestepped the social poverty dimension. It has to be said, I meekly asseverate, that part of the problem is this: the marquis has said nothing of note since 1747, when, as I never tire of repeating, he died. Examples from Classical Literature I should be surprised if she submitted meekly to the loss of one and fourpence. Close to the walls they go, their hands meekly folded, their cowled heads bent to the ground, and yet their eyes note everything. Knut and Otto were all obedience, and followed the Badger-mother meekly to the kitchen. Then, he'd meekly surrender and quietly go crazy in his cell, until the headshrinker came and confirmed it for real. She waddled to the door and Olive followed her meekly, but she could not keep her lips from smiling. Harky, who should have been sassing him back, was meekly turning the other cheek. Audrey was inclined to be contumacious, but she would not yield the matter so meekly. He felt that he ought to leave her then, but he followed her meekly enough. Davis descended meekly, gave him his neckerchief, and was bound as were the others. Or had the strain been too great for him, and had he meekly surrendered to the juggernaut of the established? As he got up meekly, the other reflected that he had always been a steady man, and might soon be a good customer again. Still, however, bending his head meekly, and perhaps stretching out his hands to bless those who reviled him, he pursued his way. There are insults which even my forbearing spirit will not meekly endure. Turning the gaiter over in his dark hands, he meekly assented. Monty struggled to his feet and came meekly towards where the pot stood simmering upon the ground. When the tea bell rang, Jo appeared, looking so grim and unapproachable that it took all Amy's courage to say meekly. He did not often find one who would stand it so meekly as Joe Jenkins. They looked down upon us, and we meekly admitted their right to do so. As he himself meekly intimates, she was reserved for another. Tom rose up meekly, to follow his new master, and raised up his heavy box on his shoulder. Show More Sentences The multitude sank meekly into their seats, and I was just expecting they would. Jaggers, suddenly stopping, and turning on the two women with the shawls, from whom the three men had meekly separated. The King hears the reverend man, with a companion of his solitude, telling his beads within, and meekly requests of him quarters for the night. Paragot accepted meekly my report of Joanna's tabu of the Black Boar. Lalkhan brought tea, and Tony went with him quite meekly to the nursery. I meekly fished it out of the index finger of my glove and poked it in the box. So she meekly inspected the autogiro and climbed into the cock-pit. He had a hundred opprobrious nicknames, which he accepted meekly. She was deeply interested in Captain Wragge's conversation, and meekly disappointed to find it turn on general subjects, to the exclusion of science. In a match spoiled by the strong wind, Boro struggled to get going and meekly surrendered their sevengame unbeaten run to two Jack Muldoon strikes. Meekly craving their blessing, for so had they been piously taught. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of meekly? Words that rhyme with meekly What is the adjective for meekly? What is the noun for meekly? Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words meekest meeker meek and mild Meek meek meed meekness meeks Meeks meem meen Meena 6-letter Words Starting With m me mee meek meekl