Definition: 1. Bending the head or body or knee as a sign of reverence or submission or shame. 2. Managing the bow in playing a stringed instrument. 3. Showing an excessively deferential manner.
Use 'bowing' in a sentence:
1. Debrett's offers no guidance on bowing to anyone who is not British royalty.
2. New austerity plans are bowing in this direction.
3. Shall we dance? "he asked his wife, bowing."
4. It would be like bowing to the Saudi king times ten.
5. "My father told me to join my friends," he says sadly, bowing to peer pressure.
6. They kept bowing when speaking to me.
7. He's the kind of guy who doesn't care what other people think of him, so I don't think he was bowing to pressure.
8. But what if he had taken it, bowing to some long-latent kleptomaniacal urges?
9. He also argues that those who put their faith in technology alone to save the planet are bowing to a false god.
10. Bowing to the public as an apology may have its benefits.
11. And bowing his head towards the water, he awaited his death.
12. The British habit of using an address to head writing paper is also bowing to change.
13. In all this Mr Castro is bowing to reality.
14. The sunflower looks like bowing to the sun.
15. “You should be bowing your head in apology,” he said.
16. As the centuries progressed, handshaking was replaced by more 'hierarchical' ways of greeting — like bowing.
17. He then met a large group of family members, bowing to them and offering his sympathies.
18. In the young one, bowing to the older one, I recognized myself.
19. I have only a bowing [nodding] acquaintance with him.
20. Ms Merkel has not been much more consistent, bowing repeatedly to SPD demands for more "social" policies.
21. Bowing before the king, he said, "I wish to be knighted so that I may rid your kingdom of this horrible monster."
22. Oh, kill me!" said the poor duckling, and he waited for his death bowing his head towards the water.
23. A popular hypothesis suggests that Cleland's statements against bowing were actually a wish to go back to a potentially very traditional ( though poorly recorded) method of greeting in Europe.
24. Jiang, bowing his head and weeping. "I waited for eight years." Finally, I was together with my son.
25. Bowing one's head and folding one's arms during prayer are both customary and encouraged.
26. "Oh, my dear Cricket," said Pinocchio, bowing politely.
27. In the United States, however, bowing or any type of submissive body posture is particularly irritating, for it tends to connote undue formality, aristocracy, and a nonverbal denial of egalitarianism.
28. Some stores are bowing to consumer pressure and stocking organically grown vegetables.
29. Teachers begin with a formal address and mutual bowing, and then concentrate on whole-class teaching.
30. Some shops are bowing to consumer pressure and stocking organically grown vegetables.
