How to Use bow down to (someone or something) in a Sentence

bow down to (someone or something)

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• Put some respect on her name and bow down to the rom-com queen!
  — Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 19 June 2022
• Haman hated Mordechai because Mordechai refused to bow down to him.
  — CNN, 20 Feb. 2022
• More than 600 Afghan women and girls refuse to bow down to the Taliban's ban on education.
  — Allie Weintraub, ABC News, 8 Mar. 2023
• Your unruly subjects will bow down to you as the queen in Alice in Wonderland.
  — Mariah Thomas, Good Housekeeping, 8 June 2022
• The point seems to be that all other styles or approaches of AI ought to bow down to the sub-symbolics approach and toss in the towel.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 19 May 2022
• To see my very strong-willed mother bow down to her was pretty impressive.
  — Bianca Alysse, Men's Health, 28 Sep. 2022
• Republicans are free to punish truth-tellers in their party for refusing to bow down to Trump.
  — Star Tribune, 9 May 2021
• His job is to be the unquestioned head of the party while everyone else's job -- including DeSantis -- is to bow down to that reality.
  — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 4 Oct. 2021
• Politicians in other states, such as New York, are showing less willingness to bow down to the companies’ assertions that their business models are good for consumers and workers alike.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2022
• The film, which follows rebellious young women who refuse to bow down to fundamentalism, could not be released in Algeria but went on to represent the country at the Oscars.
  — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 7 Oct. 2022
• She’s never asked us to bow down to her greatness — for all her range and emotional intelligence, perhaps her greatest talent is still seeming like an ordinary person.
  — Tim Grierson, Vulture, 29 Dec. 2021
• And because American businesspeople have been conditioned to bow down to middlemen who help drive down costs, Sourcewater was viewed as a success story.
  — Nick Martin, The New Republic, 9 Dec. 2020
• Over nearly a half-century, Carl Icahn has shaken up Wall Street as a corporate raider and activist shareholder, making corporate titans bow down to his demands and change their business strategies.
  — Michael J. De La Merced, BostonGlobe.com, 3 May 2023

Last Updated: 27 Aug 2024