cowed in English
Use "cowed" in a sentence
1. He cowed his wife into obedience.
2. People were again cowed into subjugation.
3. The men were cowed into total submission.
4. The natives were cowed by the army.
5. He cowed the boy into doing illegal things.
6. The soldiers seemed cowed by " Wind Blade " earlier
7. We walk tall, no longer cowed by writs.
8. 10 The men were cowed into total submission.
9. Dissidents were cowed into silence by the army.
10. The smaller boys were cowed by the class bully.
11. The men might be cowed for the time being.
12. The teacher cowed the pupils with his hard eyes.
13. I will not be cowed into forsaking my beliefs.
14. The protesters had been cowed into submission by the police.
15. Scholars who know better are cowed, indifferent or, sotto voce, disdainful.
16. The protesters refused to be cowed into submission by the army.
17. 20 synonyms for Awestruck: impressed, shocked, amazed, stunned, afraid, frightened, terrified, cowed
18. Not at all Cowed by the odds against making it in show business
19. 18 synonyms for Awed: impressed, shocked, amazed, afraid, stunned, frightened, terrified, cowed, astonished
20. Yet they do not appear to have been cowed by systems or professionals.
21. Clyburn: Cowed GOP Ascribes 'mystical powers' to Trump Mike Lillis 6/3/2020
22. For decades it has cowed public employees, left them docile, passive, and bitter.
23. Annixter had cursed him so vociferously and tersely that even Osterman was cowed.
24. The headman of the gypsies, cowed and nervous, was apparently trying to offer explanations.
25. But you could just as easily argue that their are incurious because they're cowed.
26. By this time she was so cowed by the beatings that she meekly obeyed.
27. Synonyms for Bullyragged include browbeat, browbeaten, bullied, intimidated, cowed, bulldozed, hectored, blackjacked, bogarted and badgered
28. The government, far from being cowed by these threats, has vowed to continue its policy.
29. He should have been cowed and compromised by fear and debt, but he was not.
30. Synonyms for Browbeaten include bullied, subjugated, oppressed, downtrodden, intimidated, broken, cowed, demoralised, demoralized and frightened
31. Most were attracted by her intoxicating combination of beauty, wit and charm, but others were cowed.
32. Synonyms for Bogarted include blackjacked, browbeat, browbeaten, bulldozed, bullied, bullyragged, cowed, hectored, intimidated and mau-maued
33. Not surprisingly, young salesmen dashed around the place looking cowed and frightened, while young traders smoked cigars.
34. “Cline’s sharply drawn characters are the cowed, contemplative survivors of self-inflicted trauma, both seismic and quotidian
35. And maybe they would be cowed not only by the discipline but by the man who wielded it.
36. The entire Project Eden team - or what was left of it - was milling around: cowed, shocked and submissive.
37. Aunt Margaret, frail as a pressed flower, seemed too cowed by his presence even to look at him.
38. 164), but these “Arbitrationist” speakers were denigrated by pro-war speakers as wearing “petticoats” and being cowed by suffragists
39. They - whoever they were - had underestimated her if they thought she could be cowed into submission by threats and violence.
40. But the investigation was suddenly closed down, 17 volumes of its work vanished, and its members were cowed into silence.
41. By now most of the other girls found me extremely odd, but they were easily cowed by my outbursts of sarcasm.
42. What does Abjectness feel like? Nervous and cowed to Abjectness as she was, she felt near the end of her endurance
43. She was a big ill-tempered animal cowed by a presence more threatening and a temper more volatile than her own.
44. He cut his school off from the outside world so that nobody would see how cowed and frightened the children were.
45. The battle of Britain had been his first defeat, and the malignant bombing of the cities had not cowed the nation or its Government.
46. Browbeaten adj : frightened into submission or compliance [syn: bullied, cowed, hangdog, intimidated] Dictionary source: hEnglish - advanced version More: English to English translation of Browbeaten
47. Crestfallen Having the crest, or upper part of the neck, hanging to one side; -- said of a horse.; Crestfallen With hanging head; hence, dispirited; dejected; cowed
48. “Within a few days,” it was reported, “most of [the guards] had become abusive and bullying, meting out frequent punishments, while the prisoners had become cowed and subservient.”
49. ‘Natural Combativeness, an innate immunity to being cowed by the biggest names or the biggest occasions in football, is obviously a vital part of the equipment he carries on to the field.’ ‘His customary Combativeness in print hasn't mellowed much, mind you.’
50. ‘Natural Combativeness, an innate immunity to being cowed by the biggest names or the biggest occasions in football, is obviously a vital part of the equipment he carries on to the field.’ ‘His customary Combativeness in print hasn't mellowed much, mind you.’