How to Use unbowed in a Sentence

unbowed

adjective
  • He was unbowed by failure.
  • The queens of Louisville:They're loud, proud & unbowed.
    Rae Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 27 June 2022
  • At all hours of the day, the beach is lined with people who are unbowed and determined to spend time on the waves.
    George McCalman, SFChronicle.com, 31 Oct. 2020
  • The Greek Freak, bloodied but unbowed at the finish, scored 40 with 11 rebounds.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 11 May 2022
  • But the Hornets were overmatched on The Farm, buffaloed and battered but not unbowed.
    Joe Davidson, sacbee.com, 2 June 2017
  • Maria Paraskevoula, a 52-year-old teacher in Athens, was also unbowed.
    New York Times, 17 Mar. 2021
  • Under the bludgeonings of chance, my head is bloody but unbowed.
    Dory Jackson, Peoplemag, 12 Dec. 2022
  • The bell rang to end Round 1, and Hagler, unbowed, fixed a stare on Hearns for a couple of seconds as the challenger turned for his corner.
    BostonGlobe.com, 27 Mar. 2021
  • But Carter remains unbowed, in this book and in his Plains retirement.
    BostonGlobe.com, 9 July 2021
  • That always stuck with me: that bravado in the song and that bloodied but unbowed attitude.
    Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 22 Sep. 2017
  • Programming, bad or good, was about one thing: the insistence of presence—black and unbowed.
    Jason Parham, WIRED, 19 June 2018
  • If, on the other hand, Trump heads towards 2020 bloodied but unbowed, there could be an opening for a challenger.
    Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, 28 July 2017
  • In recent months, the governor and his defenders have clung to form, ham-handed and unbowed.
    New York Times, 13 Apr. 2021
  • Rosenthal’s belief in the institution of the Times was unbowed by a range of workplace troubles.
    Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2023
  • Hagler, bloodied but unbowed, ended it with a looping right hand that sent Hearns sprawling to the canvas.
    BostonGlobe.com, 4 May 2021
  • The soldiers in this canvas are exhausted and battered, if still unbowed.
    Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 4 Jan. 2021
  • And the Houthis themselves appear unbowed after the U.S.-led coalition’s attacks.
    Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 16 Jan. 2024
  • Almost six months into the war, Odesa resists, not untouched, but unbowed.
    New York Times, 19 Aug. 2022
  • In 1996 he was sentenced to three years in a labour camp, emerging unbowed to go on writing about politics at his usual terrific rate.
    The Economist, 15 July 2017
  • The state Democratic Party, equally unbowed, revised its rules to keep Black voters out.
    Lee Drutman, Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2022
  • While Dylan's legions of fans felt betrayed, Dylan was unbowed.
    Jeff Slate, Esquire, 8 July 2016
  • After most of her work went out of print, she was praised in a 2014 Vanity Fair article by Anolik as an overlooked and unbowed genius.
    Hillel Italie, ajc, 18 Dec. 2021
  • On the whole, the administrative state remains unbowed.
    Philip Wallach, National Review, 19 Dec. 2019
  • Just moments later, Pence’s job was to portray Trump as standing unbowed against the racial unrest playing out on the nation’s television screens.
    Justin Sink, Bloomberg.com, 29 Aug. 2020
  • Fellow protesters rinsed her face with milk to ease the sting, and a news photographer took a striking picture of the 84-year-old Ms. Rainey staring, unbowed, straight into the camera.
    Ed Shanahan, New York Times, 24 Aug. 2022
  • Each picture is devoid of humans, but their spirit, brutalized but unbowed, is present.
    Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 9 June 2022
  • Mondy’s story is not simply a case study of how an offender who drifts in and out of already-strained punishment and treatment systems can end up back at school, unbowed and unchanged.
    Washington Post, 15 May 2017
  • However, this appeal to Blitz spirit, to the unbowed might of Albion, to the idea that Britain withstood the Luftwaffe—all of it is deeply unhelpful when dealing with an infectious disease.
    Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 12 Mar. 2020
  • But Morgan and Miller were unbowed, so on September 10, arsonists attempted to set fire to Miller’s printing office.
    Colin Dickey, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 July 2023
  • Simone Biles walked away from the Tokyo Olympics with her head unbowed and her illustrious gymnastic career cemented.
    NBC News, 4 Aug. 2021

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