The sound of her father saying her name cowed her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bulletproof Girl] Reference

It also showed that Samir isn't a player to be easily cowed, which is also heartening.    From Wordnik.com.  [Goonerboy] Reference

"The Third Man" watches from the wings while a "cowed" Mr. Blair considers moving Mr. Brown from the Treasury but balks at the dangers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heart of Darkness] Reference

You thought I might be "cowed" into saying I didn't?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gay/Lesbian Forum] Reference

Unfortunately for Mr. Cramer, his "cowed" attitude only furthered his guilt.    From Wordnik.com.  [BusinessWeek.com --] Reference

W. Christopher (-) Lawyers 'lawyer cowed in China shop.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lawyer-Bashing Edition] Reference

Its people have been cowed into submission for decades.    From Wordnik.com.  [Don't Rush To Disaster] Reference

I told him that, one day, told him I was feeling cowed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cousin] Reference

But American big business is thoroughly cowed by China.    From Wordnik.com.  [Time to stand up to China on trade] Reference

Thirty years in the wasteland of Reaganism has cowed the left.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stephen Herrington: A Message Washington Will Hear] Reference

And don't be cowed by all the official-looking mail you'll be getting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Money: How to Get More Cash] Reference

If labor is cowed and capital is overcautious, the recovery must suffer.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Big Hiring Freeze] Reference

Photograph: Joe Skipper/Reuters You could use words such as "cowed" and ".    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to US media's mixed response to Woods' apology] Reference

His post-resignation comments were not those of someone who had been cowed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sharmine Narwani: Chas Freeman Lets Rip on Israel as a Strategic Liability] Reference

Even so, Republicans are less cowed by Obama than they were even a week ago.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Risky Strategy] Reference

Azizah, too, once cowed by Malaysia's old-style politics, is no longer afraid.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mother Of The Revolt] Reference

Whether by habit of obedience or oddly cowed by this powerless man, they comply.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Jaws of Kronos, scene 4] Reference

University students, once cowed by militias like the Mahdi Army, are feeling freer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rebirth of a Nation] Reference

He seems to have almost intimidated his fellow litigators, a bunch not easily cowed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Settling Old Scores In The Swamp] Reference

"" We're cowed into believing that publicity is the most important thing, '' he says.    From Wordnik.com.  [So You Wanna Be A Star] Reference

Its economy is increasingly state-dominated, its polity controlled and its people cowed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boris Yeltsin's Wrong Moves] Reference

The rest of the party has been cowed by the aggressiveness of their rightwing opponents.    From Wordnik.com.  [Barack Obama is down, but it's far too early to count him out] Reference

Initially cowed by the campaign, the independent press was emboldened by the Kursk tragedy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Russia's Press Strikes Back] Reference

The ringleaders had been captured, and the rest of the Spartacides were cowed and bewildered.    From Wordnik.com.  [Army Boys on German Soil Our Doughboys Quelling the Mobs] Reference

Oryn looked back at Reya with the corner of her eye and her assistant cowed, wanting to hide.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arcana Magi - c.4: Reflection] Reference

It is hard to believe that professors are as powerless or as cowed as they are portrayed here.    From Wordnik.com.  [What, Me Study?] Reference

Nice enough guys, but all wearing that cowed, frustrated look that seemed to be a "Lachesis" trademark.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Question of Courage] Reference

The vice president appearing in public with the president was a defiant little act saying we won't be cowed.    From Wordnik.com.  [West Wing Story: A Defiant Little Act] Reference

But the Burmese people refused to be cowed, handing two thirds of the seats in Parliament to Suu Kyi's party.    From Wordnik.com.  [Burma: No Win For Ne Win] Reference

But he found that the people who came to his meetings had been cowed into silence on sensitive political topics.    From Wordnik.com.  [Waiting For His Moment] Reference

Fay's handlers dragged him forward, still resisting but more feebly now, as if half-hypnotized or at least cowed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Creature from Cleveland Depths] Reference

But Social Security was so popular from the moment it was enacted in 1935 that it cowed Republicans into me-tooism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Between the Lines, Online: The Bush Deal] Reference

Jeru isn't cowed by the power of the backing track of his 1993 hit, as he fills the song with timelessly quotable lines.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nightlife Agenda] Reference

They would have easily cowed an approaching camel train bearing incense bound for Mecca, Alexandria or the Mediterranean.    From Wordnik.com.  [Inside The Land Of Sheba] Reference

"We will not be cowed by accusations that this is irresponsible and putting services at risk? the very opposite is true.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Unions threaten mass strikes over spending cuts] Reference

Nobody has had more luck, power, and fortitude, nor has put together a greater network of the cowed and owing than Rupert Murdoch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Michael Wolff: Murdoch's Hacking Scandal: It's the Story That Keeps Giving] Reference