bowed

/ baʊd /

adjective

1. lowered; bent forward; curved

   bowed head

   bowed back

2. weighed down; troubled

   bowed down by grief

Example Sentences

Then she bowed to Svetlana, reverent and low, as if she were bowing to the tsarina herself.

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He clicked his heels and bowed to the wolves.

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“Allow me to introduce Alexander, Beowulf”—the boys bowed—“and you have already met Cassiopeia.”

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Italian Sinner took one hour and 35 minutes to see off spirited Shelton who bowed out of his debut Finals in Turin without a win from his three matches in the Bjorn Borg Group.

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But it had also bowed, curving and collapsing a little like a kitchen sponge when you squeeze it between your thumb and fingers.

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