Bowing has 2 syllables and the stress is on the first syllable.
| # | Sentence | |
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| 1. | For instance, bowing is peculiar to us, the Japanese. | |
| 2. | I have a bowing acquaintance with Mr Smith. | |
| 3. | The custom of bowing is peculiar to the islanders. | |
| 4. | The boy over there is bowing to you. | |
| 5. | In Japan, bowing is common courtesy. | |
| 6. | They shake hands instead of bowing. | |
| 7. | Fashion houses around the world are bowing to pressure and using alternatives to real fur amid pressure from animal rights groups and changing tastes of younger customers, who are increasingly aware of the environmental issues linked with the clothes they buy. | |
| 8. | And they answered: Thy servant our father is in health; he is yet living. And bowing themselves, they made obeisance to him. | |
| 9. | And when your children shall say to you: What is the meaning of this service? You shall say to them: It is the victim of the passage of the Lord, when he passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, striking the Egyptians, and saving our houses. And the people bowing themselves, adored. | |
| 10. | "Namaste," a combination of two Sanskrit words, translates into "bowing to you". |