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
  • Chiles came up with the idea to bow down to Andrade on the podium.
    Kaetlyn Liddy, NBC News, 9 Aug. 2024
  • No one took a second to bow down to the greatness of a living legend.
    Kathleen Newman-Bremang, refinery29.com, 6 Jan. 2025
  • To see my very strong-willed mother bow down to her was pretty impressive.
    Bianca Alysse, Men's Health, 28 Sep. 2022
  • Haman hated Mordechai because Mordechai refused to bow down to him.
    CNN, 20 Feb. 2022
  • Naturally, she's shocked by the proposal, which happens right in front of her, and doesn't bow down to the new ruler.
    Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 2 Mar. 2024
  • Your unruly subjects will bow down to you as the queen in Alice in Wonderland.
    Mariah Thomas, Good Housekeeping, 8 June 2022
  • The people who are supposed to be her peers consistently bow down to her in admiration.
    Kathleen Newman-Bremang, refinery29.com, 3 Feb. 2025
  • Jane Lynch is happy to bow down to longtime friend and former on-screen flame Jennifer Coolidge.
    Brenton Blanchet, Peoplemag, 12 Feb. 2024
  • The inland port is a creation by people who oftentimes simply bow down to developers.
    Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 Mar. 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
  • 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
  • Legislators and regulators should not bow down to the pressure from bank lobbyists, whose interests are profits.
    Mayra Rodriguez Valladares, Forbes, 7 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Elder’s mantra that government should bow down to the might and insight of the individual taps into rancho libertarianism, a strain of Latino politics that Democrats pretend doesn’t exist and that Republicans are just realizing does.
    Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2021

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