bow down
Example Sentences
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Thus, he’s surprised when others don’t bow down so swiftly.
From Slate • Mar. 4, 2026
Last week, the country's commerce minister, Piyush Goyal, said India "will neither bow down nor ever appear weak" in its economic relationships with other countries.
From BBC • Sep. 2, 2025
“I don’t want to do a symbolical gesture to bow down to the system so that I can have a home,” he said.
From New York Times • Jun. 7, 2024
“I think we owe it to them that we are not going to give in easily and that we are not going to bow down … because others wish for us to go away.”
From Seattle Times • Oct. 13, 2023
An old Siberian Tartar, his eyes almost lost in the wrinkles around them, laid his bow down beside it.
From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman
