Sentence examples for bow from high-quality English sources.

• See also bow and arrow.

• You can buy a beginner's bow for less than $50, but a top-rate professional bow can often cost thousands of dollars.

• When the violinist who was supposed to perform opened his case and saw that the bow was missing, he got up to look for it—and the alternate slipped into his seat, said, “Oh, I can play,” and pulled the bow out of his shirt.

• …often self-accompanied on the ugubhu gourd bow.

• …were often self-accompanied on the ugubhu gourd bow.

• Though not as evident, the sophistication of arrow technology matched that of the bow.

• The bow was simple in concept, yet it represented an extremely sophisticated technology.

• This bow is really an adaptation of the older type but with an incurved stick, wide frog, and narrow head.

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• A prime advantage of the composite bow was that it could be engineered to essentially any desired strength.

• The organization, known as the Bow Street Runners, patrolled the highways and streets within the parish of Bow Street.

• Occasionally, a secondary bow may be observed, which is considerably less intense than the primary bow and has its colour sequence reversed.

• Until the late 18th century, the bow stick was either straight or (as on a hunting bow) bent outward from the horsehair, which was under comparatively low tension.

• Narrator: Like Sandrine, many esteemed artisans have studied this craft in France, where prominent French bow makers like François Xavier Tourte developed the modern bow.

• Most bows are actually bow-shaped, but the Tourte bow is made in a compound curve to which considerable tension can be applied, making it possible to apply much pressure to the strings.

• Many small cetaceans play around moving boats, where they bow-ride, taking advantage of their ability to bodysurf and essentially enjoying the free ride in the bow wave created by the vessel.

• The first improvement was the reflex bow, a bow that was curved forward, or reflexively, near its centre so that the string lay close against the grip before the bow was drawn.

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• If the bow could be held in a drawn state by a mechanical trigger, then the bow could be drawn in progressive stages using levers, cranks, and gears or windlass-and-pulley mechanisms, thereby multiplying the user’s strength.

• Two styles of bass bow are currently used: the short and narrow French bow (like a violin bow), held palm downward, and the broader German bow (like a viol bow), held palm upward.

• …Native American musical bow—specifically, a mouth bow, so called because it uses the mouth as a resonator; by plucking the single string of the bow, holding it to the mouth, and strategically varying the shape of the mouth cavity, different overtones are emphasized to yield a distinct melody.

• Although the musical bow is virtually identical in shape to the hunter’s bow, it is uncertain whether the musical instrument might be derived from the weapon; indeed, there is no way of knowing whether humans hunted with a bow-shaped implement before they made musical sound with a bow.