MEEK in a Sentence
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68 example sentences for MEEK, such as:
1. But he was neither meek nor angry.
2. She won't object—she's so meek and mild.
3. She played the role of a meek, innocent, shy girl.
4. She would have hated him had he been meek about it.
5. From some cause his expression was at that moment very meek.
2. She won't object—she's so meek and mild.
3. She played the role of a meek, innocent, shy girl.
4. She would have hated him had he been meek about it.
5. From some cause his expression was at that moment very meek.
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Meanings and Examples of MEEK
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meek
a. quiet and obedient; showing patience and humility
Classic Sentence: (62 in 5 pages)
1 Mammy hurried Scarlett up the dark stairs, muttering fussy remarks about cold hands and thin shoes and Scarlett looked meek and was well content.
2 This was not the meek Frank she knew, the nervous beard clawer who she had learned could be bullied with such ease.
3 But, she told herself time and again, she would have to walk easily, gingerly, be meek under insults, yielding to injustices, never giving offense to anyone, black or white, who might do her harm.
4 I'll be meek under their coldness and repentant of my evil ways.
5 Behind them and mixed with them, the houses, meek cottages or large, comfortable, soundly uninteresting symbols of prosperity.
6 She wanted to laugh at the gratified importance in Raymie's half-shut eyes; she wanted to weep over the meek ambitiousness which clouded like an aura his pale face, flap ears, and sandy pompadour.
7 She would have hated him had he been meek about it.
8 But he was neither meek nor angry.
9 Hither the faithful singing-master had now brought himself, together with all his sorrows, his apprehensions, and his meek dependence on the protection of Providence.
10 The females stood modestly aside, and, from having been the principal actors in the scene, they now became the meek and attentive observers of that which followed.
11 From some cause his expression was at that moment very meek.
12 Yes, perhaps I ought to mention," said Herbert, who had become curiously crestfallen and meek, since we entered on the interesting theme, "that she is rather below my mother's nonsensical family notions.
13 When he had once more laughed heartily, he became meek again, and told me that the moment he began to realize Capital, it was his intention to marry this young lady.
14 We should not have been much discomposed, I dare say, by the appearance of Steerforth himself, but we became in a moment the meekest of the meek before his respectable serving-man.
15 Anna Mikhaylovna, with a meek, sorrowful, and all-forgiving expression on her face, stood by the door near the strange lady.
Example Sentence:
1 The essence of meek is to be patient with ignorance, slow to anger and never hold a grudge.
2 I think the contrast could not be much greater between a sleek gander and a fierce falcon: between a meek sheep and the rough-coated keen-eyed dog, its guardian.
3 He was resigned when he saw Bob was too meek to protest Scrooge's bullying.
4 She played the role of a meek, innocent, shy girl.
5 They called her Miss Mouse because she was so meek and mild.
6 She won't object—she's so meek and mild.