kneel

The noise gradually fades and the rescuers climb the rubble, kneel and bow their heads.

From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026

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

It’s kind of like Ramses in the movie “The Ten Commandments” when he says, “Command them to kneel before Pharaoh.”

From Salon ● Apr. 24, 2025

He would kneel down on the pavement and look them in the eye, ferry them to appointments, visit them in hospitals, work tirelessly to earn their trust and try to get them into housing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 14, 2025

I detach him from my leg, so I can kneel down and wrap my free arm around him.

From "The Benefits of Being an Octopus" by Ann Braden

In another, “Mao’s Guilt,” the late Chinese leader kneels with his hand over his heart, seemingly in a display of penance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

Seeing all this, a woman kneels and cries out between sobs.

From Barron's ● Jul. 4, 2026

Afterward, the individual moves into the home’s front yard, kneels on the ground and tries to pick up the cat, which the post said is named Piper.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 17, 2025

Down the beach, a young woman kneels, eyes closed, palms up, praying.

From BBC ● Dec. 15, 2025

I rub my hands on my pants hard, back and forth, back and forth, until Momma kneels next to me and holds my hands, making them quiet.

From "A Good Kind of Trouble" by Lisa Moore Ramée

As they viewed the remains laid out on a white silk sheet, many pilgrims made the sign of the cross, others kneeled down.

From Barron's ● Feb. 22, 2026

South Florida's NBC6 reports the men kneeled, clapped their hands together, and waved their shirts at the passing helicopter.

From Salon ● Jun. 5, 2025

Before chairs with a back and arm rests debuted as a status symbol among ancient Egyptians about 5,000 years ago, he says that humans mostly kneeled or squatted for about 2 million years.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 7, 2025

In the potato-chip aisle, a woman kneeled on the floor, diligently unpacking boxes, filling the shelves with chips, then reversing the process and repeating it several times over.

From Slate ● Dec. 4, 2024

The little boy kneeled down to kiss his master’s hand— his surcoat, with the Malory bearings, looking absurdly new.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

Parton "detoured the whole entourage to come around over there to where we were and then she knelt down to talk to Heather for a minute".

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

After her program, she clutched the necklaces on her burgundy lace dress and knelt at center ice.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 17, 2026

Protesters, some wearing clerical stoles draped over their shoulders, knelt while singing hymns and reciting the Lord’s Prayer in frigid conditions before being handcuffed and led away, video showed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026

She knelt in front of the first officer she saw, told him she’d fled the colectivos, and pleaded for a chance to seek asylum.

From Slate ● Jan. 15, 2026

Bruno knelt down next to her and patted her on the back.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff

Ulrich Siegmund, tanned and smiling, chatted enthusiastically with the crowd, at one point kneeling to speak with a child in a wheelchair.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

He was found kneeling in front of a piano and striking the keys, in apparent distress.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026

A resident driving in the area where the fire started spotted a man kneeling in grass before standing up and “looking very nervous,” Nowels said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

An image widely circulated online in Thailand purported to show Macron kneeling as he presented the awards.

From Barron's ● Jul. 2, 2026

Around the barn in the hen house she found Edward, egg basket still empty, kneeling before the chickens.

From "The Midwife's Apprentice" by Karen Cushman