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Example sentences for: cowed

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Commercial channels pour programs down from the heavens that match or surpass the products of the public broadcasters, who are too cowed to produce anything as homo-proud as the new Ellen , as racy as Brooklyn South , or as culturally subversive as The Larry Sanders Show . I ask you, what PBS newsman out-wings the liberal Peter Jennings?
Yet, sympathy is usually with strikers, and cowed politicians give in to almost all demands from almost all quarters.
For those who have watched his career, his outspokenness on the campaign trail appears as a refusal to be cowed by yet another prison and its silly rules.
The annual Mutual Funds issue congratulates the aggressive and chastises those cowed by short-term fluctuations.
So we have a man's tongue "grey as the foot of a goose"; a catfish "the size of a boar hog"; a man who gets ready to take a blow "like a cowed dog"; a night as dark "as the inside of a cow"; an old man whose dugs "hung down like those on a sow hog"--an entire farmyard of likenesses.