Example sentences for: bow

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

  • The alpha dog is the most aggressive male in the group, the one that instinctively wants to be leader of the pack and will not bow out of a fight.

  • The delightfully vivid bird, with its blend of comedy and pathos, may be Hardy's bow of his head toward such Romantic birds as the nightingale heard by John Keats in his great "Ode to a Nightingale" much earlier in the century.

  • My daughter and I were watching The Wizard of Oz over the holidays (which I'm sure Team Carlson wasn't, since it was on TV), and it occurred to me that there's a bit of Oz in Safire: He seems all-powerful and scary, someone you have to bow before to curry favor, but when you pull the curtain back he's just a nebbishy guy who used to write speeches for Nixon.

  • The turreted edifice set down in the Bow River Valley has something of the fairytale castles of Ludwig of Bavaria.

  • This week, he recycles the same suit and bow tie and evasions on Face the Nation and Meet the Press . He chiefly concerns himself with abusing archenemy Kenneth Starr, though Tim Russert chastens him by reading back a series of quotations that document how, not too long ago, the lawyer was a professed member of the Ken Starr Fan Club.


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