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

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