How to Use unbowed in a Sentence

unbowed

adjective
  • He was unbowed by failure.
  • So far, the country is unbowed.
    — Magdalena Del Valle, Fortune, 23 May 2026
  • Under the bludgeonings of chance, my head is bloody but unbowed.
    — Dory Jackson, Peoplemag, 12 Dec. 2022
  • At all hours of the day, the beach is lined with people who are unbowed and determined to spend time on the waves.
    — George McCalman, SFChronicle.com, 31 Oct. 2020
  • But Carter remains unbowed, in this book and in his Plains retirement.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 9 July 2021
  • The soldiers in this canvas are exhausted and battered, if still unbowed.
    — Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 4 Jan. 2021
  • Jackson remains unbowed by his removal.
    — Richard Collett, CNN Money, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Maria Paraskevoula, a 52-year-old teacher in Athens, was also unbowed.
    — New York Times, 17 Mar. 2021
  • In recent months, the governor and his defenders have clung to form, ham-handed and unbowed.
    — New York Times, 13 Apr. 2021
  • Trump is unbowed and set to aggressively expand his imprint on a new global system of trade in the weeks ahead.
    — Phil Mattingly, CNN Money, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Each picture is devoid of humans, but their spirit, brutalized but unbowed, is present.
    — Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 9 June 2022
  • Bloodied but unbowed, Arch Manning leads the Longhorns to a go-ahead touchdown.
    — Thomas Jones, Austin American Statesman, 31 Dec. 2025
  • After the final whistle, Clark slapped fives with her teammates, and marched back to the locker room, head unbowed.
    — Sean Gregory / Uncasville, TIME, 15 May 2024
  • Almost six months into the war, Odesa resists, not untouched, but unbowed.
    — New York Times, 19 Aug. 2022
  • Hagler, bloodied but unbowed, ended it with a looping right hand that sent Hearns sprawling to the canvas.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 4 May 2021
  • While Dylan's legions of fans felt betrayed, Dylan was unbowed.
    — Jeff Slate, Esquire, 8 July 2016
  • But the Hornets were overmatched on The Farm, buffaloed and battered but not unbowed.
    — Joe Davidson, sacbee.com, 2 June 2017
  • Students protesters were unbowed, and soon the encampment had regrown to be even larger than before.
    — Sharon Otterman, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2024
  • Rosenthal’s belief in the institution of the Times was unbowed by a range of workplace troubles.
    — Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2023
  • And today, though bruised, our democracy remains unbowed and unbroken.
    — Abc News, ABC News, 8 Feb. 2023
  • The Greek Freak, bloodied but unbowed at the finish, scored 40 with 11 rebounds.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 11 May 2022
  • By this point in the epic, Odysseus has emerged from a series of trials unscathed, unbowed, and ultimately unburdened of his men.
    — Robert Zaretsky, Foreign Affairs, 4 Oct. 2019
  • And the people of Ukraine remain unbowed and unbroken in the face of Putin's vigorous onslaught.
    — Joey Garrison, USA TODAY, 23 Feb. 2024
  • But the fight also extended to the unbowed way musicians comported themselves.
    — Julian Sancton, Billboard, 5 May 2017
  • If, on the other hand, Trump heads towards 2020 bloodied but unbowed, there could be an opening for a challenger.
    — Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, 28 July 2017
  • Four decades into her stand-up career, Margaret Cho remains unbowed and unwavering on stage.
    — Rodney Ho, AJC.com, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Ukrainians have reacted to such tragedies during nearly a year of war with unbowed defiance, anger and determination to fight back.
    — Jamey Keaten, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Jan. 2023
  • The state Democratic Party, equally unbowed, revised its rules to keep Black voters out.
    — Lee Drutman, Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2022
  • The bell rang to end Round 1, and Hagler, unbowed, fixed a stare on Hearns for a couple of seconds as the challenger turned for his corner.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 27 Mar. 2021
  • In 1996 he was sentenced to three years in a labour camp, emerging unbowed to go on writing about politics at his usual terrific rate.
    — The Economist, 15 July 2017

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