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Example sentences for "bowed down"

  • I bowed down to the ground for that money!

  • I bowed down yesterday to the great suffering in store for him.

  • I mean the elder one, to whom I bowed down.

  • I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother.

  • For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth.

  • I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.

  • And I bowed down my head, and worshipped the LORD, and blessed the LORD God of my master Abraham, which had led me in the right way to take my master's brother's daughter unto his son.

  • Then David sent and brought him from the house of Machir; and when Meribaal the son of Jonathan came to David, he bowed down to the ground before him.

  • Then Jacob himself went in front of them, and he bowed down to the ground seven times, as he drew near to his brother.

  • This is what he said to them, "I dreamed that, as we were binding sheaves in the field, my sheaf rose up and remained standing, while your sheaves came around and bowed down to my sheaf.

  • I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity," he said wildly and walked away to the window.

  • The second time he bowed down in the Hay Market he saw, standing fifty paces from him on the left, Sonia.

  • He knelt down in the middle of the square, bowed down to the earth, and kissed that filthy earth with bliss and rapture.

  • The man was still silent, but suddenly he bowed down almost to the ground, touching it with his finger.

  • The LORD upholdeth all that fall, And raiseth up all those that be bowed down.

  • I bowed down my ear a little, and received her.

  • I am become miserable, and am bowed down even to the end: I walked sorrowful all the day long.

  • And the loftiness of men shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be humbled, and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.

  • Thou leadest him that is without a leader, the man that is in need: Thou graspeth the hand of the weak; Thou raisest up him that is bowed down; The body of the man that has been brought to the lower world thou dost restore.

  • Him who is bowed down I lift up; The aged one I lift up.

  • They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down: they have digged a pit before me, into the midst whereof they are fallen themselves.

  • I humbled my soul with fasting, I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother; I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother.

  • He took the cup from the second step, and he bowed down, and went out.

  • He who gained the lot for the censer, gathered the live coals on the top of the altar of incense; and he smoothed them with the bottom of the censer, and he bowed down, and went out.

  • I am twisted [with pain]; I am bowed down utterly; All the day I drag about in squalid attire.

  • There are two cognate words in Hebrew, one of which means one who is bowed down, i.

  • As one mourning for a mother, I bowed down (dragged myself about?

  • I bowed down to Prohoritch and would have gone away, when I bethought me that I could not go away without rewarding him.

  • I bowed down to him again almost to the ground, and set off straight for the market!

  • I bowed down to the earth and did not get up in a hurry; I felt such awe for the man and such submission that I believe that whatever he had told me to do I should have done it on the spot!

  • The lofty looks of men shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down.

  • Then there came back the whisper of the old words, "The lofty looks of men shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down.

  • And the whisper of the old words came back once more: "The lofty looks of men shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down.

  • I went up sidewards, crossed myself, bowed down to the ground, glanced.

  • Anna Pavlovna got up, went up to the holy picture, bowed down to the ground, and slowly followed her son.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bowed down" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    are you; battle field; bowed down; bread making; brown coat; catching sight; defense expenditures; dispensing power; each column; general expression; letter office; little reason; must trouble; never forgot; quarter teaspoonful; raise armies; reform school; remain silent; since leaving; when sent; white ants; would please