Example sentences for: cowed

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

  • Such complaints already seem to have cowed the Clinton administration.

  • Rogue nations will be cowed by the prospect of surveillance.

  • Yet, sympathy is usually with strikers, and cowed politicians give in to almost all demands from almost all quarters.

  • 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.

  • Strom Thurmond: cowed, mobbed


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