Example sentences for: bow

How can you use “bow” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • It introduced the West to a new source of political power--mass producers, before whom elected officials would need to bow and scrape.

  • By 2,000 b.c. , these timid, gentle nomads hunting with bow and arrow were driven back from the coasts by waves of sturdy immigrants arriving in outrigger canoes equipped with sails.

  • The Caribs here, expert with bow and arrow, were demonstrably displeased to see the explorer.

  • Poetry also came into eschatology in the movies, as many persons found a liking for Blake's Milton in the spirited lines: "Bring me my bow of burning gold/ Bring me my Arrows of Desire!

  • Declaim that line of transliterated Greek, and you can listen to Homer's cunning selection of words and genitive case capture the twanging release of Ulysses' silver bow.


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