Example Sentences

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Here we find a different formative lesson: Posturing with bared teeth will cow your foes into submission.

From Slate • Jan. 24, 2018

If that woman thinks she will cow me, I refuse to take it.

From Time Magazine Archive

If you can get her away from here, I think she will cow down and do anything you say.

From Frank Merriwell's Son A Chip Off the Old Block by Standish, Burt L.