What is "sheeplike"

Usage examples of "sheeplike".

So the farmers up there in Ellanish were not the sheeplike and submissive folk the Commander had thought, were they?

The sheeplike musk-oxen were permanent inhabitants of the frozen north, and moved in small herds within a limited territory.

We were sheeplike masses almost without volition, directed and controlled by the ARM bureaucracy, of which I myself was a tiny part.

Other than the sheeplike faithful, the unwashed, the believers in voodoo and thingamajig.

It was no matter that he later claimed that he had meant simply that they reminded him of sheep, or that there was something fluffy and sheeplike about them.

And there were the customs, traditions, treaties, oaths, and whatnot that established Venetian dominance over these poor sheeplike villagers I was oppressing.

I had preferred to deal with the science leaders, whom I admire more than your sheeplike masses who buy what they are told to buy, read what they are told to read, have sex when and where and how they are told to, and even smell the way they are told to.

Union Ambassador had described them, sheeplike followers of fashion, adopting the philosophy, the religion, the attitude of the moment.

His sheeplike face was transformed, forgelight gleaming in his eyes and turning them red.

With their backs to the walls they trained their weapons on the delegates, who herded, sheeplike, toward the center of the room.

They were spoiling for a fight, and the sheeplike timidity of the people trapped with them in the inn was not to their liking.

And Vangelio herself was crouching like an animal to defend herself against it, against that repulsive animal—for so this marriage seemed to her to be—with this half-helping of a bridegroom, with his glasses, his soft priest's voice and his disgusting sheeplike gentleness.

The man was blubbering and staring with sheeplike eyes at the lieutenant, who had seized him by the collar and was pommeling him.

Were I one of these writer-fellows, I should probably say that her features were Grecian, but being neither a writer nor a poet I can do her greater justice by saying that she combined all of the finest lines that one sees in the typical American girl's face rather than the pronounced sheeplike physiognomy of the Greek goddess.