How To Use Bowed In A Sentence

About a meter tall if it stood erect, it must use its short, bowed legs arboreally by choice, for it ran on all fours and either foot terminated in three well-developed grasping digits. The Rebel Worlds
The bowed zither may seem strange, but is exactly what it appears to be - a violin for zitherists.
The duke bowed to the Queen.
She stood up and elbowed him in the back before turning on her heel and sprinting for the stairs.
On an ancient stone stump, about three feet thick and three feet high, used for securing ships by ropes to the shore, and called a bollard or holdfast, an elderly gentleman sits facing the land with his head bowed and his face in his hands, sobbing. Back to Methuselah

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His mind was employed upon Christ, and even bodily he felt as if set free from a great burden which had bowed him down.
The sweeping tall palm trees fringing the edge of the beach, seemingly bowed toward the sea, as if trying to dip their frowns over the white sands to reach the ocean for a refreshing drink of its cool water. "Best" Beach
The pear tree was bowed down with the weight of its fruit.
He bowed with stiff formality and had stridden from the room before she could raise a hand to stop him. Slightly Married
Eighteen years and 110 Tests later he bowed out, with Nemesis unable to resist shaking her fist at him.
Four silent soldiers with bowed heads stood at each corner of the bier.
The Colonel bowed his head and whispered a prayer of thanksgiving.
He elbowed the man in the face as he was struck in the side by one of the previous attackers.
The cause of the mass below the surface was Times CEO Howell Raines, who had egomaniacally elbowed his way to the top. Egonomics
Mike closed his eyes and bowed his head, resting it on his interlaced fingers. HIDING FROM THE LIGHT
Simon was not a Harvard graduate but a Lafayette College dropout who had elbowed his way to the top.
I bowed to superior will and entered journalism with a heavy heart.
A sharp cry tore itself from her lips as she threw herself onto the floor outside, her head bowed as tears fled from her eyes.
Erin, the mousiest of the bridesmaids, elbowed Gladys when she noticed, only to find herself subtly rebuked with a withering glare from Cheryl, whose short brown hair and severe temperament remained unchanged for the happy occasion. Crossed
The trees bowed against the force of the wind, and leaves slapped against the outside of the window.
Dublin finally bowed to the inevitable yesterday and said it DOES need a rescue package to stave off bankruptcy. The Sun
He came as a bumptious outsider to the Alberta Tories but soon elbowed his way to the top, winning the leadership as a rookie MP.
I remembered myself, and bowed my head to him, and said to him, ‘Here is the monk.’
She bowed to the inevitable and resigned.
Then Nur al-Din bowed his head, and made these couplets, The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Sir Evelyn's squire bowed, holding out the reins to the horse.
But Arsheesh knew by the gold on the stranger's bare arm that he was a Tarkaan or great lord, and he bowed kneeling before him till his beard touched the earth and made signs to Shasta to kneel also.
Upon the stone was an engraving of an altar, upon which a sacrificial fire was burning, and before it a suppliant family bowed the knee; over this was thrown a white vestment archwise in the form of a rainbow. Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers
The hedges bowed to the earth under their weight of hawthorn blossom. Times, Sunday Times
Brooker, a stout and flabby man, with pouches under biliously tinged eyes, bowed and broke into a violent perspiration, not wholly due to the shiny black frock-coat suit of broadcloth donned for the occasion. The Dop Doctor
She elbowed the back of Bashir's head, smacking his face against the ground and leaving him unconscious, and that was that.
In its early history, music was the serious concern of voices, or instruments blown or bowed.
Canada bowed out in the tournament's first round after getting hammered by Norway and Russia.
'Let us pray.' The congregation bowed their heads.
The councilmen bowed, the oarsmen saluted, the militia all watched him with awe. A TIME OF WAR
The bird flapped its newly usable wing, bowed its little head towards Jace, and flew off.
With that the beggar bowed deeply to the handsome couple and laughed until he was rocking back and forth.
Brand elbowed his way to the centre of the group of bystanders.
The people all bowed down before the Emperor.
Ministers have bowed to pressure by weakening a series of expensive regulations after protests from cash-strapped home owners.
At some point - maybe in a year or two, after we reach 1 million users - I'll probably need to be elbowed aside.
Short in proportion to the Corolla tho wide or bulky; the Style is very long or longer than the stamens, simple, cilindrical, bowed or bent upwards, placed on the top of the germ, membranous shrivels and falls off when the pericarp has obtained it's full Size. the Stigma is three clefts very manute and pubescent. the pericarp is a capsule, triangular, oblong, obtuse, and trilocular with three longitudinal valves. the Seed So far as I could judge are noumerous not very manute and globilar. The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806
He raised the pole above his head, drove the spike into a log at his feet, shinnied up the pole, and to a chorus of cheers, bowed as he stood upon the far side, triumphant.
That new program, Transformers Prime, bowed last fall as a five-part miniseries, but now returns as a full-fledged series this Friday, Feb. 11, at 6:30/5:30c on The Hub, the new kids channel formed by Hasbro and Discovery Communications. Transformers Primed for an Animated Comeback
The Japanese staff bowed their heads in abject misery. Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 194445
A man should pray with eyes fast-closed and head contritely bowed.
He emerged from the discussions bloody but unbowed.
I am sitting right at the back of the room, in my customary chocolate brown polo neck sweater, head bowed.
It's a genre in which sweeping narratives somehow manage to unspool through tiny but highly specific movements like a sharply bowed finger or a knowing lift of the brow. Priyadarsini Govind and Nrityagram Dance Ensemble offer intense Indian dance
And we have led them here to you who have "saved the poor fragment of our people who fled from our once beautiful planet" He bowed his head, his shoulders slumping with his con - summate despair. The City Who Fought
Jack's remarks set off rumours that he had been elbowed aside.
When they laughed I laughed, and we bowed and shook hands, and they turned me round and felt me all over, and _felt my hands_. Miscellanea
When his courtiers and attendants had bowed their way out of the room, Valentinian summoned Faustinus into an antechamber.
But secret video of Milosevic being marched in handcuffs, head bowed, to his solitary cell spoke more eloquently: he no longer has the power to instill fear and exert total control over the nation he misruled for more than a decade.
She bowed her head and made a cross over her chest in reverence of the departed woman.
He stopped for a moment, coughed, got up, bade Anna give his respectful compliments to M. Braun, made a joke in Latin, bowed, and took his leave. Jean-Christophe Journey's End
He bowed as well as he could in the crowded atmosphere and left her, standing stock-still in surprise.
He made his way up the steep stairs, his back bowed under the weight of the heavy bag.
Furiously he elbowed his way through the crush, his men behind him.
An ensign elbowed past her into the elevator as she walked out onto the bridge.
He elbowed his way to the bar and ordered a beer.
And Mary Catherine is what that old biddy, Clara of the Bowed Legs and Beehive her hair, who lives in the cottage across the path, calls a navel gazer. Amaryllis in Blueberry
Why do the vast tribes of India, deceived and enslaved by the bonzes, trampled upon by the descendant of a Tartar, bowed down by labor, groaning in misery, assailed by diseases, and a mark for all the scourges and plagues of life, still fondly cling to that life? A Philosophical Dictionary
After the fight, Ali was bloody but unbowed .
Just seven months ago, Ralph Lauren and David Geffen "elbowed" each other to secure a $500,000, non-transferable spot on the waiting list for GM's $60 million Gulfstream G650 (release date: 2012). Signs of the New Economy: 'The Private Jet Market Stinks'
For a few moments she watched the movements of the orphans as they smote their breasts at the "Confiteor," or bowed their heads at the "Sanctus," accompanying the priests who, they knew, in thousands of churches, were engaged in offering sacrifice to God; and reading the The Cross and the Shamrock Or, How To Defend The Faith. An Irish-American Catholic Tale Of Real Life, Descriptive Of The Temptations, Sufferings, Trials, And Triumphs Of The Children Of St. Patrick In The Great Republic Of Washington. A Book For The Enter
The Burn, beaten and bloodied, but unbowed are returning to the Edinburgh District League, from whence they came 30 years ago.
The nominal Health Secretary rose without trace and now been elbowed aside by the Prime Minister himself.
Nadgett put on his spectacles, and read the name attentively; then looked at the chairman over his glasses, and bowed; then took them off, and put them in their case; and then put the case in his pocket. The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit
The councilmen bowed, the oarsmen saluted, the militia all watched him with awe. A TIME OF WAR
She then elbowed her way past James and into the hallway, making sure to slam the door on the way out.
Opposite, a portly gentleman with a magnificent beard adjusted his sword and bowed his head minutely in welcome.
Dressed in black, with a broad-brimmed white beaver hat, craped in consequence of the recent death of his wife, he bowed with composed ease and a somewhat military grace to the multitude. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.
Without further consent, Michael bowed my head forward and his fingers explored my hair around the back of my head while he searched for a visible injury of some kind.
He bowed low to the assembled crowd.
He bowed to her, in the distant formality of the rich, and then laughed as his hand caught on his sword, spoiling the movement.
But you did change your mind,' he said, unbowed by the reproof in her tone. LOST SUMMER
Jamie Salter bowed out in style by winning the 200m freestyle, in what was his last race.
If the big racecourses get their way, the smaller tracks will be elbowed aside in a rush for the extra fixtures promised.
A 2004 presidential bid failed to recapture the Joe-mentum'' of the earlier race, and he bowed out early. Lieberman Decision Could Set Off a Wild Race
A tiny old monk, who seemed to have been waiting outside the door, bowed into the room with an enormous bowl of boiled eggs and a jar of wine.
The faintly bowed front has a look that is now familiar and strangely oldfashioned. Times, Sunday Times
He could have bowed out gracefully at any time and it looked like he might, but now this.
His face was bent downward, his shoulders bowed, his lips compressed, and the veins stood out like whipcord in his long, sinewy neck. Sole Music
The apple tree was bowed down with the weight of its fruit.
Lou gently lay Bev's hand back on the mattress and bowed his head with a solemnity that Nora thought both tender and portentous.
When the conversation lulled, the Captain sat silently brooding over his cigarette, head bowed.
The syndic was her tenant, and bowed down to her, and the rest of the illiterate officials followed his lead. Taquisara
Their football team bowed out of the competition with unknown reasons.
The priest bowed down before the altar.
He elbowed a lever into position, and a loud clang sounded from the bowels of the ship.
There, he would be another old person elbowed and nudged by the hordes in their restive wildebeest migration in search of gratification.
`His Eminence the Cardinal Archbishop"--he bowed nervously at the prelate `is well-known. A SHRINE OF MURDERS
They bowed before the emperor as he entered the court.
We all bowed to the Queen.
The crest they use is also nearly the same, viz., an armed arm, embowed, grasping a broken tilting spear. Notes and Queries, Number 51, October 19, 1850
Wearing a grey prison issue tracksuit he bowed his head and spoke only to confirm his name and address. The Sun
Here it was before him, a courtroom and a judge, bowed down in subservience by the machine to a dive-keeper who swung a string of votes. The Benefit of the Doubt
In all, 16 rooms have been re-created at Claverton Manor—none more charming than the one dedicated to Shaker furniture, where pride of place is taken by a candleholder with prettily bowed legs, elegant in its simplicity. Telling Our Story Across the Pond
In Metropolis, Fritz Lang had the office as an urban dystopia with workers shuffling about in smocks with bowed heads, sedated by repetition.
He very humbly bowed before them, and with his folded hands.
Several tradesmen elbowed their way past him as they descended into one pit or another.
He bowed slightly, the familiarity of instilled manners providing him with a space to gather himself. THE LAST TEMPTATION
Albert bowed over the girl's hand - Caro would bet it wasn't his wife.
While Quinnox was making this statement the accused stood with bowed head and throbless heart. Graustark
And bowed down to resume his strange rump-in-the-air and face-in-the-sea posture.
The losing team left the field bloody but unbowed .
He attacked her from behind, but she back-elbowed him which caught him in the right eye and dizzied him.
She stood still, head bowed, hands clasped in front of her.
Some early Shields are represented as _bowed_ -- hollowed, that is, in order to cover more closely the person of the bearer, and consequently having a convex external contour, as in No. 39. The Handbook to English Heraldry
Besides, such is the breadth of the upper part of the front of his head, and such the tapering cut-water formation of the lower part, that by obliquely elevating his head, he thereby may be said to transform himself from a bluff-bowed sluggish galliot into a sharppointed New Moby Dick; or the Whale
Those providers finally bowed to pressure this month by cutting household gas bills. Times, Sunday Times
Each carried a bouquet of flowers, many of them containing orange blooms as a mark of Dutch national identity, and every child stood before a grave with their head bowed.
Harline begins and ends his book [Sunday: A History of the First Day from Babylonia to the Super Bowl] with Super Bowl Sunday, an event that in its rituals, prayer breakfasts, helmeted heads bowed during the invocation, represents the sacralization of the secular. Mjh's blog — 2007 — June
Then he closed by holding his violin and bow with bowed head. Christianity Today
On a hard surface, the base of the scales bowed slightly, shortening the distance between the fulcrum of the levers and the point at which they put pressure on the spring.
Luxembourg has bowed to international pressure to drop the veil of secrecy surrounding its banks. Times, Sunday Times
meekly bowed to his wishes
ESPN never will admit it, but it must be frosted — make that permafrosted — that another giant has elbowed its way into its once-exclusive draft territory. USATODAY.com - Aura around draft is blown way out of proportion
The Japanese staff bowed their heads in abject misery. Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 194445
Duncan was not so bowed in the intellect as ye imagine, and had some spice of cleverality about his queer manoeuvres. The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith
In my experience, they were all and one fattish, baldish with bowed legs.
Badenoch's penetrating eye saw that it was indeed the patriotic guardian of his country to whom he bowed, and not the vain affecter of regal power. The Scottish Chiefs
I bowed and waited, thinking she would bid me take a seat.
Three suitors elbowed past Derick, but he was concentrating so hard on the scenery that he hardly noticed.
The waiter, convinced that he was dealing with yet another exiled king in disguise, bowed low and moved off. THE LONELY SEA
stood defiantly with unbowed back
What happened to her was tragic and awful, but she managed to maintain a level of happiness and refused to be bowed by her illness.
Two bowed and toothless old almsmen then looked at each other and chuckled, innocently enough; but the sound had a strange weird effect in that place. Far from the Madding Crowd
The stanza's concluding couplet, however, with its assertion that "A heavy weight of hours has chained and bowed/One too like thee: tameless, and swift, and proud" (55-56), signals that the process of self-forgetting is not complete. Shelley's Golden Wind: Zen Harmonics in _A Defence of Poetry_ and 'Ode to the WestWind'
He was being held by two security guards, his head bowed in shame.
The crowd broke into cheers and the drunk bowed.
We bowed and seated ourselves upon rugs provided for us, while the women gave us tea in china basins into which a piece of butter and some tsamba had previously been put; we were also served some bread fried in fat, and hong-tsao-er, a dried With the Tibetans in Tent and Temple: Narrative of Four Years' Residence on the Tibetan Borders, and of a Journey into the Far Interior
The beautiful steel bowed; the invisible wood fastener held. FOLLY
On the way out, Oscar bumped into another group of guards, who gave him dark looks and elbowed past.
Both sat weeping with their heads bowed when after a service of hymns, prayers and poems, Robbie Williams's song Angels was performed.
Willi made his way over to Madge Grimsilk, coughed, hesitated, then bowed in a very old-fashioned and courtly way.
While Savall rang the changes with three medieval bowed instruments - the rebab, rebec, and vielle - Psonis played the santur zither, the Moorish guitar, and a selection of Middle-Eastern drums: the human voice soared above a subtly-shifting kaleidoscope of instrumental colour. The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
Tom humbly bowed his head and his cheeks blushed in the embarrassment.
The servant bowed low and handed his master the sealed note.
The table had delicate bowed legs.
The children hung/bowed their heads in shame.
He bowed his head in shame and sadness.
He bowed at the waist as Sandra reddened, then sped off down the hallway.
And seeing those rooms through her eyes, with their rugs and fireplaces and bric-a-brac, Alessandro grimaced and bowed his head. Three Stages of Amazement
Whether this were not making too much of death, as tending to assuefaction, some reason there is to doubt; but certain it is that such practices would hardly be embraced by our modern gourmands, who like not to look on faces of _mortua_, or be elbowed by mummies. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6
Their football team bowed out of the competition with unknown reasons.
The women were terrified and bowed their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, Why do you look for the living among the dead?
He bowed in homage to the Unknown Soldier.
The old man bowed, a gesture which was reciprocated by both newcomers.
But his aesthetic immoralism remained in substance unchanged - it only bowed down before the rule of dogmatic Christianity.
She took his hands, and they bowed their heads together.
Dublin finally bowed to the inevitable yesterday and said it DOES need a rescue package to stave off bankruptcy. The Sun
Mrs. Sartoris bowed assent; the introduction made, his name duly inscribed on the lady's tablets, and Captain Conyers exclaimed, Belles and Ringers
Finally, the paper doll came to the front. He was so shy that he didn't say a word and just bowed.
She felt colour flood into her cheeks and she bowed her head.
They bowed to the Queen.
Last week Chen's company bowed to the inevitable and closed its doors.
He was being held by two security guards, his head bowed in shame.
He bowed out of the major championships at the Old Course wearing rubber cleats and carrying a space-age driver made from titanium in his bag.
Blades which are severely bowed should not be purchased.
He flung himself to his knees, bowed his head, and stretched out his arms like a suppliant. A TIME OF WAR
Uh, Tasslehoff," Trapspringer interrupted, coughing uncomfortably as Damaris elbowed her way through the crowd to them, "I'd like you to meet your birthmate. Stalling
The S80 has soft lines with a gently sloping hood, steeply raked windscreen, slightly bowed roofline and coupe-like rear window.
And thus, kneeling upon the flower-sprent turf hand in hand and with heads reverently bowed, they were wed, while the six outlaws stared in silent awe and the meek ass cropped the grass busily. The Geste of Duke Jocelyn
Our heads are bowed in shame and I have asked the sports minister to inquire about it. The Sun
National colourful costumes combine with the beat of percussion instruments and the plucked and bowed strings of India to bring the mini-fest to a kaleidoscopic end.
She bowed her head and answered in a voice soft as the murmur of the wind through rushes, speaking in the rich language called Quichua that The Virgin of the Sun
When the Archbishop elect made his formal entrance to York Minster later in the day, his first act was to kneel in silent prayer with head bowed for more than 10 minutes.
Lady, it means not disobedience to you, nor any displeasance done to this young damsel" -- and De Gernet turned and bowed to Roisia. A Forgotten Hero Not for Him
As the military standards were lowered, heads bowed, a sea of poppies were held still in the hands of former soldiers.
At first, Pearl had gone too, but Pearl yawned and squirmed and elbowed Jane to whisper, Would it be rude to leave early? Uprising
He elbowed his way past his brother's hands and grabbed for a sushi roll, stuffing the whole thing in his mouth.
West said Castor bowed to political correctness in coddling Al-Arian. October 2004
In the end, however, the Park Board bowed to pressure from a noisy minority and reversed their vote.
The lad bowed his thanks and knotted the sash around his body in the usual fashion.
He bowed slightly, put an arm round the two children, then turned towards the door.
The pushiest, most sharp-elbowed parent in the western world. Times, Sunday Times
At the correct stage of maturity, Narcissi have slightly bowed buds and visible color, and flowers are emerging from the spathes.
In any case, believe that I was fair (I even bowed to Melanie - howzat not cricket?!) and that you reneged on your promise. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
Sutaakingu bowed low, brushing back a strand of flyaway hair.
And if that threatened squall should burst its bonds and come shrieking and howling in fury across the surface of the sea, scourging it into a mad turmoil of foaming, leaping water and blinding spindrift, while the burnt-out crew of the schooner were making their passage across to the _Mercury_, it might be very bad for them; for even should they be fortunate enough to avoid capsizal, it might be exceedingly difficult, if not altogether impossible, for the ship, smitten and bowed down by the might of the tempest, to pause and pick them up. Overdue The Story of a Missing Ship
The servant bowed the guests out as they left.
The Princess, visibly moved, kept her head bowed during the ceremony.
Then the bishop came forth, crossed himself briefly, and bowed his head.
A pair of bright eyes, shaded by bushy white brows, glittered in his brown face -- seamed and wrinkled like the bark of a gnarled oaklike gay flowers amid withered leaves, forming a strange contrast to his lean, bowed, and shrivelled form. Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works
At about 1.30 p.m. he elbowed the door handle and shouldered the door, coffee and sandwich in hand and papers in oxter. Well, Ken MacLeod agrees with me rather than with Jonathan Swift
The only man to retire from the punishing demands of the heavyweight category unbowed by defeat in any fight was Rocky Marciano.
The fawning multitudes elbowed each other behind barricades to catch a 10-second glimpse of a lady who would say little, do nothing, and contribute even less.
bowed down with troubles
He bowed his back and lumps of muscle bunched between his scapulae. A DARKENING STAIN
The people all bowed down before the Emperor.
Turks ascended this form in turn, stood, bowed, knelt, prostrated themselves in silent prayer, reiteratedly. A Tramp's Sketches
Central to this concept is the impression of the writer, battered though unbowed by oppression, given safe haven and continuing to struggle from a foreign home.
Monday, I want to do some work in the corner and on the crack (there are three routes there that I haven't done honestly, though I've rainbowed them), and work on three unrated routes that I think are probably 5. 8s. I sold a pint of blood bought a half a pint of scotch
Pulling up before the general store, Grace dismounted and elbowed her way through a crowd of men, smilingly demanding "gangway," which was readily granted, though accompanied by quite personal remarks about her, to which, of course, the Overland girl gave not the slightest heed. Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders in the Great North Woods
Then he stood up, bowed, and said, `My dear, I am decidedly honoured ". ANASTASIA KRUPNIK (3-IN-1)
She instantly looked abashed and bowed her head.
Salaman bowed and went his way, and I took up a palm-leaf fan, and began to use it, not as a wafter of cool wind, but as a screen to hide my face when I spoke to Dost, and from behind which I could keep an eye on the tents, and see when any one was coming. Gil the Gunner The Youngest Officer in the East
So it was no surprise the second series was so poorly received after the pair bowed out due to new storylines. The Sun

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