How to Use obeisance in a Sentence

obeisance

noun
  • The week before, Good trekked with Trump to court for a display of obeisance.
    — Eric Cortellessa, TIME, 31 May 2024
  • At the curtain call, the biped company patted the earth in obeisance.
    — Charles McNulty, latimes.com, 5 Feb. 2018
  • The Ultimo pays surprisingly subtle obeisance to the Sun, the Moon, and the Stars.
    — Horacio Silva, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 May 2017
  • Barr’s obeisance to Trump in the Flynn case revealed his show of principle to be a charade.
    — Jonathan Stevenson, The New York Review of Books, 15 May 2020
  • Americans need to shake off the shackles of obeisance to technocrats.
    — Danielle Allen, Foreign Affairs, 1 June 2020
  • China wants nothing less than to restore itself as the Middle Kingdom, owed the respect and obeisance of the rest of the world.
    — Rich Lowry, National Review, 25 Feb. 2022
  • The Fed’s policy obeisance to the Phillips curve flattened our economy a decade ago.
    — WSJ, 31 May 2018
  • But that skepticism faded and was replaced by a sort of obeisance.
    — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 31 Dec. 2019
  • Even in social life, this does not require thanks, and in your office, doing so would seem to accept it as obeisance.
    — Judith Martin, The Mercury News, 5 Feb. 2024
  • The United States is flooded with guns, a reflection both of its cowboy mythos and its obeisance to profit.
    — Sarah Jones, New Republic, 16 Feb. 2018
  • Americans needed to shake off the shackles of obeisance to technocrats.
    — Danielle Allen, Foreign Affairs, 1 June 2020
  • Fox News is paying the price for its obeisance to former president Donald Trump.
    — Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2022
  • And beneath the obeisance to the Beltway rules about what addresses to joint sessions of Congress are supposed to look like lurked Trump Classic.
    — E.j. Dionne Jr., The Denver Post, 1 Mar. 2017
  • Last week, the CDC, competent in nothing but goose-step obeisance to big-city teachers’ unions, pushed another fake study on the utility of masks.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 17 Mar. 2022
  • The dead being beyond our reach, our debt can only be expressed to one another; but our gratitude is also a form of obeisance — yes, to the dead.
    — William F. Buckley Jr., National Review, 26 Nov. 2020
  • This primary may end up an exercise in obeisance, but the general won’t be.
    — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 13 May 2023
  • Thus would a medieval liege lord have accepted obeisance from his vassals; all that was missing was the flicker of torchlight and the haunch of venison turning on its spit.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 25 July 2024
  • Schubert is going to rely on her record rather than Trump obeisance to win over Republicans.
    — Joe Garofoli, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 July 2021
  • In Hong Kong this week, local business leaders have been falling all over themselves to affirm obeisance to Beijing.
    — Fortune, 24 Aug. 2019
  • But his priority is that GOP candidates show obeisance to his claims that he was robbed in November.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 14 Oct. 2021
  • This was a mass act of corrupt obeisance to a serial liar — and now that same outfit is playing a leading role in winnowing the GOP primary field.
    — Erik Wemple, Washington Post, 22 June 2023
  • Bowing down is a symbol of obeisance, and Americans do not bend our knees for our own leaders, much less for foreign potentates.
    — Judith Martin, oregonlive, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Over the course of four years, this can become a subtle but real habit of obeisance, a condition of moral and spiritual surrender.
    — R.r. Reno, WSJ, 7 June 2021
  • Some also use helicopter services to pay quick obeisance.
    — Washington Post, 2 July 2019
  • Some also use helicopter services to pay quick obeisance.
    — Washington Post, 2 Aug. 2019
  • Some also use helicopter services to pay quick obeisance.
    — Washington Post, 2 Aug. 2019
  • But the former president’s obeisance to Cohn’s Rule No. 3 — claim victory, never admit defeat — dealt the project a setback.
    — Chris Lee, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2024
  • But if the cost of that support is an expectation for partisan obeisance, then how much are those policies really worth?
    — Eli Lake, Twin Cities, 18 Aug. 2019
  • Maybe the Republican Party will drop this obeisance someday.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 27 Nov. 2023
  • Amid candidates who pay obeisance to all the leftist pieties—with occasional exceptions from Mr. Adams—Mr.
    — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 14 May 2021

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