kneel
Example Sentences
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With only 18 seconds left after that game-tying score, the Rams opted to kneel and send the game to overtime.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 19, 2026
Dr Baksheiev and his team would have to use anything available as an examination table, including old sofas, meaning he would have to kneel on the floor to conduct examinations.
From BBC • Jul. 7, 2025
"You don’t know whether to stand . . . or kneel."
From Salon • May 13, 2025
Businessmen from all over Europe would choose your port to set out from if they knew they could kneel at the altar of this champion of mariners.
From Slate • Dec. 15, 2024
“I kneel before the Immortal: before the eternal human soul. I offer you my knife and my protection, until the day of my death.”
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
Vocabulary lists containing kneel
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