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

Last Updated: 4 Dec 2024