Sentence examples for bowed under from inspiring English sources

We rolled through fields of flaming red flowers and expansive groves of trees bowed under the weight of bunches of purple litchi fruit.

They also worry that Christie's has bowed under pressure from a government that often tries to silence critics and artists it dislikes.

Reluctantly, we returned to Tashinga, passing on our way scores of porters bowed under burdens of roof timbers for houses, like a trail of leaf-cutter ants.

He walks visibly bowed under the burden of his imperfection, sighing with the struggle to uphold a vision of the ideal.

Patient Indian women with their babies slung in rebozos, men bowed under their burdens, looked to her like people waiting for their souls.

It seems unlikely that Thein Sein and his cronies have suddenly seen the moral light, or that they have finally bowed under the weight of western disapproval.

Balconies bow under the weight of potted flowers.

Their heads, once following the sun, hang like broken shower heads bowing under the weight of seeds.

He tries to muffle my shouts with his hands, but I wriggle and twist till he bows under my weight, and we nearly topple over.

Appetite for the stuff has since spread: supermarket shelves in northern Europe and other rich countries bow under the weight of an array of oils.

Meanwhile three-quarters of the country's fuel consumption comes from roadside wooden tables bowing under stacks of jars filled with honey-coloured oil.