cowed
Example Sentences
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But feminists should not be cowed — and not just because this case, a version of which was already litigated in Carroll’s favor, is likely to crumble in court.
From Salon • May 29, 2026
But he insisted that he would not be cowed by antisemitism.
From Barron's • Mar. 13, 2026
Of course some of us wept and raged when he once again had to flee some bigger monkey that he had clearly annoyed, but while Punch was certainly cowed, he was never broken.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 20, 2026
Progress, as he understood it, meant refusing to be cowed by fear—a resolve he said he first witnessed among Jamaican anticolonial activists, and later on the front lines of the civil-rights movement.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 31, 2026
His slouch tells me he is cowed by me.
From "How It Went Down" by Kekla Magoon
