Examples of bow out in a Sentence
quite embarrassingly, the top-seeded player bowed out in the first round of competition
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Family is the reason Brown is bowing out.
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Amy Drew Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 13 May 2026
Organizers offered no information as to why Iran had decided to bow out.
—News Desk, Artforum, 4 May 2026
That might as well have been a shot across the bow, in hindsight, because after watching the Wild bow out in the first round of the playoffs once again, Guerin shocked the world in July 2021 by buying out Parise and Suter.
—Dane Mizutani, Twin Cities, 2 May 2026
Eventually, Caruso bowed out of both contests and Bass wound up, instead, with an opponent from the left, City Councilmember Nithya Raman.
—Dan Walters, Mercury News, 1 May 2026
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Amy Drew Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 13 May 2026
Organizers offered no information as to why Iran had decided to bow out.
—News Desk, Artforum, 4 May 2026
That might as well have been a shot across the bow, in hindsight, because after watching the Wild bow out in the first round of the playoffs once again, Guerin shocked the world in July 2021 by buying out Parise and Suter.
—Dane Mizutani, Twin Cities, 2 May 2026
Eventually, Caruso bowed out of both contests and Bass wound up, instead, with an opponent from the left, City Councilmember Nithya Raman.
—Dan Walters, Mercury News, 1 May 2026
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“Bow out.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bow%20out. Accessed 16 May. 2026.
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