How to Use obeisance in a Sentence

obeisance

noun

• Behind the swing of their big hips lay paper trails of obeisance.
  — Danielle Parker, CBS News, 30 June 2026
• But that skepticism faded and was replaced by a sort of obeisance.
  — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 31 Dec. 2019
• At the curtain call, the biped company patted the earth in obeisance.
  — Charles McNulty, latimes.com, 5 Feb. 2018
• Americans need to shake off the shackles of obeisance to technocrats.
  — Danielle Allen, Foreign Affairs, 1 June 2020
• Even in social life, this does not require thanks, and in your office, doing so would seem to accept it as obeisance.
  — Judith Martin, The Mercury News, 5 Feb. 2024
• Americans needed to shake off the shackles of obeisance to technocrats.
  — Danielle Allen, Foreign Affairs, 1 June 2020
• This primary may end up an exercise in obeisance, but the general won’t be.
  — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 13 May 2023
• Barr’s obeisance to Trump in the Flynn case revealed his show of principle to be a charade.
  — Jonathan Stevenson, The New York Review of Books, 15 May 2020
• The Fed’s policy obeisance to the Phillips curve flattened our economy a decade ago.
  — WSJ, 31 May 2018
• But if the cost of that support is an expectation for partisan obeisance, then how much are those policies really worth?
  — Eli Lake, Twin Cities, 18 Aug. 2019
• The United States is flooded with guns, a reflection both of its cowboy mythos and its obeisance to profit.
  — Sarah Jones, New Republic, 16 Feb. 2018
• The dead being beyond our reach, our debt can only be expressed to one another; but our gratitude is also a form of obeisance — yes, to the dead.
  — William F. Buckley Jr., National Review, 26 Nov. 2020
• Bowing down is a symbol of obeisance, and Americans do not bend our knees for our own leaders, much less for foreign potentates.
  — Judith Martin, oregonlive, 18 Apr. 2023
• Over the course of four years, this can become a subtle but real habit of obeisance, a condition of moral and spiritual surrender.
  — R.r. Reno, WSJ, 7 June 2021
• China wants nothing less than to restore itself as the Middle Kingdom, owed the respect and obeisance of the rest of the world.
  — Rich Lowry, National Review, 25 Feb. 2022
• Thus would a medieval liege lord have accepted obeisance from his vassals; all that was missing was the flicker of torchlight and the haunch of venison turning on its spit.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 25 July 2024
• In Hong Kong this week, local business leaders have been falling all over themselves to affirm obeisance to Beijing.
  — Fortune, 24 Aug. 2019
• The Ultimo pays surprisingly subtle obeisance to the Sun, the Moon, and the Stars.
  — Horacio Silva, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 May 2017
• But his priority is that GOP candidates show obeisance to his claims that he was robbed in November.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 14 Oct. 2021
• Last week, the CDC, competent in nothing but goose-step obeisance to big-city teachers’ unions, pushed another fake study on the utility of masks.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 17 Mar. 2022
• This was a mass act of corrupt obeisance to a serial liar — and now that same outfit is playing a leading role in winnowing the GOP primary field.
  — Erik Wemple, Washington Post, 22 June 2023
• But positioning her as Ethan’s maybe-girlfriend — as if in obeisance to and at the same time defiance of some foundational rule of musical theater — undoes that work.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2024
• The man whom Navarro likes to call the Boss seems to value insincere, or bought, obeisance—the flapping and fussing of a maître d’—more than heartfelt fandom, which lacks the piquancy of humiliation.
  — Ian Parker, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025
• But as wrong-headed as the Court’s obeisance to the executive branch has been (see, for example, its 2024 ruling on Presidential immunity), that deference has its limits.
  — Ruth Marcus, New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2026