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Example sentences for: cowed

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Music is always telling stories (more or less), and I think that charismatic power is an element in one of those stories--the force we feel when a strong personality comes up against a demonic power and refuses to be cowed, and takes hair-raising risks, and succeeds in being, if only for a moment, the demon's equal.
He has the mannerisms of a bully, someone who abuses the weak and is cowed by the strong.
The annual Mutual Funds issue congratulates the aggressive and chastises those cowed by short-term fluctuations.
Rogue nations will be cowed by the prospect of surveillance.
When reports about McCain's bad temper first emerged out of Arizona this fall, they indicated that he had muscled, rebuked, punished, and cowed fellow Republicans in order to squelch dissent.