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Example sentences for: cowed

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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.
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.
He has the mannerisms of a bully, someone who abuses the weak and is cowed by the strong.
Such complaints already seem to have cowed the Clinton administration.
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?