How to Use bow out in a Sentence

bow out

verb
  • And, in perhaps a shock to even the band itself, Platt bowed out in 2022.
    Garret K. Woodward, Rolling Stone, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Is Chris Pratt ready to gracefully bow out of the Chris Wars?
    Brendan Morrow, The Week, 28 June 2022
  • On the opening night of the playoffs, the 10th-seeded Pirates bowed out.
    Darren Sabedra, The Mercury News, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Scholz made clear that the rival Union bloc should bow out of government.
    Geir Moulson, chicagotribune.com, 27 Sep. 2021
  • The Blazers reached the 2019 Western Conference finals and now will bow out in the first round.
    oregonlive, 25 Aug. 2020
  • Biden stayed in the race three more weeks, then bowed out as party support collapsed.
    Mike Allen, Axios, 8 Oct. 2024
  • But, already, two directors set to come to Berlin have bowed out.
    Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Bryant puts up some epic personal seasons but the Lakers bow out in the first round twice.
    Patrick Murray, Forbes, 19 Sep. 2021
  • President Joe Biden is facing calls from his own party to bow out of the race.
    Claire Grunewald, Miami Herald, 10 July 2024
  • This isn't the first time Pineda has offered to bow out as lead vocalist.
    Ilana Kaplan, Peoplemag, 23 Sep. 2024
  • The blast had bowed out the walls and shifted mechanical print units that weighed thousands of pounds.
    The Arizona Republic, 14 Jan. 2024
  • But when Cruise decided to bow out of this year’s event, most of those gags ended up on the cutting room floor.
    Michael Schneider, Variety, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Her battle with stage 4 metastatic breast cancer forced her to bow out of the project, but some of her music will live on.
    Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Oct. 2022
  • While Martin said he’s seen plenty of people bow out of skydiving at the last minute and land with the plane, that wasn’t the case with Burg.
    Alexandra Hardle, The Arizona Republic, 20 July 2023
  • That's down from down 19 last year because Illinois and Virginia bowed out.
    Medora Lee, USA TODAY, 28 July 2023
  • By June, Musk began trying to bow out of the purchase, and Twitter sued him in July to enforce the deal.
    Nikki McCann Ramirez, Rolling Stone, 29 Sep. 2022
  • Rather than bow out, the Angels kept him close while making a number of deadline moves in hopes of adding depth to their top-heavy club.
    Scott Miller, New York Times, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Buyers are bowing out because there are so few homes on the market.
    Allison Morrow, CNN, 23 Oct. 2023
  • She was partnered with Tony Dovolani, and made it to sixth place before bowing out.
    Rachel Desantis, Peoplemag, 4 Apr. 2024
  • Williams, 40, was forced to bow out in tears from last year’s Wimbledon after an injury.
    Yuliya Talmazan, NBC News, 27 June 2022
  • After bowing out from the show, Megan took a break and then pursued designing for her line full-time.
    Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 30 Aug. 2023
  • There are virtually no details as to why the Oscar winner bowed out at the last minute.
    Nick Romano, EW.com, 9 Aug. 2024
  • When Warren bowed out, Jeffries went with Biden and hasn’t regretted it.
    Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2023
  • She was joined on several weekends by Gray, who helped paint walls until he was asked to bow out during the final phase of the work.
    Cathy Free, Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2022
  • Tejeda stepped in to reprise his role as Adam/Leo after cast member Nic Ashe had to bow out due to an undisclosed injury.
    Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Oct. 2022
  • Before Biden bowed out of the race, voter enthusiasm was a concern for both parties but more so for the Democrats.
    Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and Stephen Henriques, TIME, 11 Oct. 2024
  • Mexico is starting over — again — after hiring its fourth coach since bowing out of the last World Cup in the group stage for the first time in more than four decades.
    Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2024
  • The president, 81, isn’t on the ballot after bowing out of the race this summer due to pressure from his party.
    Christian Datoc, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 28 Oct. 2024
  • Upon getting too far over his skis and having lost five net House seats in 1998’s elections, Gingrich bowed out of the role and went home early the next year.
    Philip Elliott, TIME, 4 Oct. 2023
  • After responding to several critics, Sharpe decided to take the high road and bow out of the digital spat.
    Demicia Inman, VIBE.com, 26 Sep. 2024

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