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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Organizers offered no information as to why Iran had decided to bow out.
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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
And with their season on the line in December — typically when this group has played its best football — the Lions lost three in a row to unceremoniously bow out of the playoff hunt.
—Colton Pouncy, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2026
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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
And with their season on the line in December — typically when this group has played its best football — the Lions lost three in a row to unceremoniously bow out of the playoff hunt.
—Colton Pouncy, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2026
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“Bow out.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bow%20out. Accessed 11 May. 2026.
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