be bowed
Example Sentences
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The Silence Breakers earlier said its members would not be bowed by a decision they regarded as "profoundly unjust".
From BBC • Apr. 25, 2024
Here, buildings have wooden embellishments and entryways so low that heads must be bowed to enter.
From New York Times • Aug. 3, 2021
They saw, in the tycoon-candidate, someone who would not be bowed by complaints from the business community.
From Washington Post • Aug. 22, 2015
Pratchett refuses to be bowed down by his illness, and is producing as much as ever, though these days he finds it hard to type: he dictates into a computer and then edits the text.
From The Guardian • Apr. 22, 2013
This proud young head, tossed back with the expectant triumph of some day knowing all that his father and mother knew, must be bowed down with grief and shame then, as hers was now.
From Cobwebs and Cables by Stretton, Hesba
