How To Use mild-mannered In A Sentence
- Forrest was normally mild-mannered, affable, and untalkative.
- To see him at work you would think he was a mild-mannered postal worker, happily idling along on a red postie bike as he delivers the mail.
- Let me emphasize, straight away, that he isn't what I would call a friend, but I know him enough to say that he did purposely design himself: single, modest dresser in receding colours, mathematics teacher, sponsor of the chess club, mild-mannered acquaintance to all rather than a friend to any, a person anxious to become invisible. Excerpt: Girl in Hyacinth Blue by Susan Vreeland
- O'Brien, on the other hand, is mild-mannered and conciliatory in his approach.
- Two policemen are filming and photographing the apparently mild-mannered women holding the poster.
- Publicly, the Europeans have been following the script – "a good night's kip and then go out there and give it to them," said the normally mild-mannered Ross Fisher, sounding more like Paulie Gualtieri from the Sopranos than Clark Kent – but behind the scenes they have been in awe of the way Montgomerie has comported himself this week. Ryder Cup 2010: Colin Montgomerie uses dark arts to steel European team
- Before the white man came, in fact, the kea was a mild-mannered fruit-eating or honey-sucking bird. Science in Arcady
- My mom was mild-mannered compared to that, which was really saying something.
- Two policemen are filming and photographing the apparently mild-mannered women holding the poster.
- I am usually mild-mannered but it was the competitiveness in me. The Sun
