Sentence examples for called a bow from inspiring English sources

In Texas, it is called a bow.

If the last, it may be called a bow window.

The troller was carried on the vehicle by a bent piece called a bow or by a collapsible and adjustable frame called a pantograph.

Under Darius there was a measure of land called a "bow" that was originally a unit considered sufficient to support one bowman, who then paid his duty for the land in military service.

Power was supplied from overhead wires through a bent piece called a bow or by a collapsible and adjustable frame called a pantograph, in contrast to the universal use of the single trolley pole in the United States.

But if you want people to take you seriously when you have a valid criticism of a politician, then calling a bow a bow will help.

Now, in what you might call a bow to the ongoing life of the Vignelli map, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority has brought Vignelli back to create an interactive map based on his original that shows changes in weekend-subway service.

The McMains added two more, weighed down with dozens of family ornaments, and decorated the outside of the Queen Victoria with what Anna Marie calls "a bow theme, with, of course, lots of lights".

Mr. Perkins, who dropped out of school after the third grade, taught himself the rudiments of blues guitar on a homemade instrument called a diddley bow: a length of wire stretched between nails driven into a wall.

That may be all there is to tell about the name, except for the fact that a certain one-string guitar — native to the Mississippi Delta, often homemade, in which a length of wire is stretched between two nails in a board — is called a diddley bow.

The second-most delicious bit of tasty, tasty irony was seeing Gayle King on the CBS morning show, asking Conway about Melania Trump's fashion choice for the outfit she wore to the debate, which (you just can't make this stuff up, folks) is properly called a "pussy-bow blouse".