bowed low

Samir apologized and bowed low and groveled.

He bowed low again, with a flourish this time.

Kara Young, a nominee who made her Broadway debut in the formerly-incarcerated-people-running-a-sandwich-shop comedy “Clyde’s,” bowed low when she happened upon Mary-Louise Parker, the ace actress starring, for a second time in 25 years, as a woman recalling sexual abuse by her uncle in the play “How I Learned to Drive.”

The man bowed low and respectfully, even though no one was there to see.

He bowed low to his teacher for the last time, and then he walked out of the room.