Sentence examples for as a bow from inspiring English sources

Mr. Kerry cast his decision Wednesday as a bow to hometown pride.

Yes, here it was again: the body as a bow stretched ready to shoot.

Leaving Warriors to the imagination frustrated alumni who saw the change as a bow to political correctness.

For Ms. Fey the focus on maternity seems to be a personal preference as much as a bow to the spirit of the age.

A tensioned device such as a bow or spring, though at rest, has the potential for creating motion; it contains potential energy because of its configuration.

The boat he was navigating, a Stingray, is known as a bow rider — it has seating in front of the helm.

Mr. Bratton said the decision was as much a bow to political reality as to his own desires.

The channel depicted him as a bow-tied undergraduate in the 2009 docudrama When Boris Met Dave, exploring his shared history with the Mayor of London.

Even the cartoonist Sean Delonas weighed in, depicting the typical News reader as a bow-tied sad sack and the Post reader as a stud surrounded by buxom women.

The technical details of economic network analysis are daunting, but the metaphors evoke a "Star Trek" episode: the network is described as a bow-tie shaped "super entity" of concentrated corporate ownership.

Looking ahead to Tuesday's match at the Gabba, the 25-year-old Warwickshire all-rounder added: "It'll be a bit quicker and a bit more bouncy which will be nice for us as a bowing unit.