Example sentences for: obeisance

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

  • According to the New York Times , while some of its influential leaders are complaining about the lack of obeisance on the Hill, the Christian coalition is struggling to coalesce around a clear strategy and a single presidential candidate.

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

  • 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.

  • In an op-ed piece, FT columnist Philip Stephens wrote that those who fear Murdoch "should stop for a moment to savour the delicious irony of his latest obeisance before the Beijing gerontocracy."

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


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