Example sentences for: obeisance

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

  • numb people to Picasso's art, making obeisance routine, like genuflecting in church."

  • Not that it detracts from the hallowed ritual of tea-time, act of obeisance to a more legendary than real Britain.

  • Dworkin wishes to replace the moral teleology of law with obeisance to cultural prejudices, informing us that unjust acts may be countenanced when popular ideology asserts them to be "personal" and hence putatively free of legal restraint.

  • "What is that but an obeisance to the shadow of the God who ran off, the God they drove off when bold and young and frightened of nothing!"

  • This is where Shinto priests in white robes with black belts and black lacquered clogs stand to bless worshippers as they make a silent obeisance.


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