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Example sentences for: cowed

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As "family bed" boosters have noted, male physicians, who have no idea what motherhood is like, have cowed women for decades into doing unnatural and destructive things.
Yet, sympathy is usually with strikers, and cowed politicians give in to almost all demands from almost all quarters.
Despite early ideological and professional tinkering, the senator's son sought the Freshman Council presidency at Harvard and cowed the opposition with his precocious campaigning skills.
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.
Rogue nations will be cowed by the prospect of surveillance.