The kowtow is still a part of the ceremonial greeting.
In the schools the students kowtow before a Confucian tablet twice each month.
The bronzed skipper came pattering down from beside his huge tiller to kowtow to his august lord.
She glided across to kowtow to me, demurely radiant.
At the prescribed distance from the throne my ushers parted for me to creep forward between them and kowtow in homage to my lord.
Your Highness,” I replied, “I come of a family so proud that it is a degradation for me to kowtow even before the exalted ruler of Nippon, yet my desire to serve has caused me to humble myself.
The ceremony consisted of Her Majesty burning incense before the Pagoda, while a Court lady was told off each day to kowtow before the images.
The Young Empress looked at us, which I understood at once was meant for us to kowtow to her, which we did, and waited until the Empress got into hers.
Li stood there behind her and made a sign to us to kowtow to her.
We had to kowtow again in thanking Her Majesty for her kindness and finally she said: "Nemen tzowba" (you can go now).
She said: "You go and kowtow to Her Majesty as it is a great favor for her to give you a dress trimmed with sable.
As perhaps most of my readers know, it is the custom to kowtow when Her Majesty gives presents and we kowtowed to her when she gave us the fruit and cakes and thanked her for her kindness.
So when I returned to the room I availed myself of the first opportunity to kowtow and thank Her Majesty for the great favor she had granted me.
He was forced to kowtow to a certain degree," says his mother, "but he did it.
He was forced to kowtow to a certain degree, but he did it," Lippman says.
He resisted; he had the rooted European objection to kowtow to an Asiatic.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "kowtow" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
