bowing down
Example Sentences
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The very title of the song challenges the prospect of bowing down to authority.
From Salon ● Jan. 30, 2024
A video widely shared on Weibo shows a restaurant owner on his knees, repeatedly bowing down and apologising to a customer who was not served as the restaurant was at full capacity.
From BBC ● May 14, 2023
Executives and investors of Exide Technologies, the firm that has owned a spectacularly polluting battery recycling plant in Vernon, should be bowing down to the American regulatory and legal systems right about now.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2020
“He had everything handed to him. . . . Everything had to be about him — me, me, me, why aren’t you bowing down to me?”
From Washington Post ● Oct. 17, 2020
If you were a bird, you could imagine bowing down to him.
From "Okay for Now" by Gary D. Schmidt
