How to Use meek in a Sentence

meek

adjective
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  • The brand name is off to the side, a bit meek next to the iconic globe.
    — Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Alas, Sanchez couldn’t hold his swing on a 3-0 changeup, and his meek grounder to short killed the threat.
    — Jorge L. Ortiz, USA TODAY, 20 Oct. 2017
  • Waris, meek but still alert, answers as Shokeen and Nafis try to hide their bloody faces.
    — Pranshu Verma, Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2023
  • The Cooks had found that telling a lie that made them look meek and foolish was sometimes their best bet.
    — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2019
  • This is not a color for the meek, and fabric styles are equally bold these days.
    — Erin Hayes Burt, Dallas News, 13 June 2023
  • The Giants’ meek offense was a big factor, as Bochy couldn’t waste even the faintest threat of a rally.
    — Ron Kroichick, SFChronicle.com, 24 June 2019
  • O’Rourke’s looseness left him looking washed out and meek.
    — Gilbert Garcia, ExpressNews.com, 28 June 2019
  • But growth is meek, which could be a sign of consumer skittishness.
    — Jonathan Lansner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Mar. 2024
  • The good news is that doddering Frank and meek little Mary come to life when needed most.
    — David Coddon, sandiegouniontribune.com, 15 Apr. 2018
  • Kaprizov hasn’t scored since Game 1 and Boldy has mustered a meek three points during the series.
    — Brad Townsend, Dallas News, 27 Apr. 2023
  • Even the meekest public gestures can land a person in jail.
    — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 15 June 2023
  • Woodley's performance as Jane, the meek new mom in town with a dark past, was less showy and more internal than a lot of BLL.
    — Emma Dibdin, Marie Claire, 13 Sep. 2017
  • This was the strange, 55 million year old world of the early Eocene – giant birds ruled the land while the precursors of modern mammals were still small and meek.
    — Brian Switek, WIRED, 8 Nov. 2011
  • Hazan climbed high on the windblown beach and held the female pup up, allowing its meek calls to project over the clamoring waves.
    — Dino Grandoni and Melina Mara, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Sep. 2023
  • During their time in the Bay Area, these descriptions were aided by the contrast of the meeker, wealthier, whiter 49er fans across the bay.
    — Caille Millner, SFChronicle.com, 20 Dec. 2019
  • Sanders rejected the idea that Trump's plan was modest, meek and hardly the bold action of a man who had vowed to be a leader like no other.
    — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 12 Mar. 2018
  • The Little Mermaid‘s China earnings are meek by any measure.
    — Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 May 2023
  • These top musicians — celebrities, stars — were meek as lambs before the maestro, and a little scared, too.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 9 Jan. 2020
  • That’s why his meek performance in Game 4 was so surprising.
    — oregonlive, 31 May 2021
  • Richards said, speaking in a meek voice, before she was sentenced in federal court in Fort Lauderdale.
    — Paula McMahon, Sun-Sentinel.com, 7 June 2017
  • At the same time, this California dip seems meek using a national lens.
    — Jonathan Lansner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 May 2024
  • Kurosawa’s hero, a meek civil servant, took stock of his mortality and decided to waste not a drop of the time that remained.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 12 July 2019
  • All of them, from the defense minister to the nation’s top spies, have kept silent in the last few days, appearing meek and exhausted in a meeting with Putin on Monday.
    — Simon Shuster, Time, 27 June 2023
  • Walking the cautious, insular, and meek route has been the biggest guarantor of our livelihoods.
    — Connie Wang, refinery29.com, 1 June 2020
  • Though this area needs more study, the propensity for bold spiders to wander could be why the average S.dumicola colony has many more meek social spiders than bold ones.
    — Mark Barna, Discover Magazine, 6 Sep. 2018
  • The classic musical tells the story of a meek flower shop assistant who raises a plant that feeds on humans.
    — Sydney Scott, Essence, 24 July 2019
  • Wayne is rather meek and mild, but his mother (Jennifer Jason Leigh) is very domineering.
    — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Dec. 2023
  • In a similar fashion, Thornton sheds her P-Valley persona for a more meek and docile character as Mea’s close friend.
    — Shelby Stewart, Essence, 26 Feb. 2024
  • Some of Earn's woes can be chalked up to his meek demeanor, which tends to place him peculiar situations that thankfully drive the series along.
    — Michelle Ofiwe, Esquire, 10 Nov. 2016
  • Indeed, the Huskies were surprisingly meek in the face of Nazareth’s pressure defense, which forced seven turnovers in the first quarter and 20 overall, and were lethargic on defense.
    — Matt Le Cren, Chicago Tribune, 11 Jan. 2023

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