kneel
Example Sentences
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“We are not going to do what other governments did, which was to go and kneel before organized crime.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 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
"This Christmas, God's Church itself needs to come again to the manger and strip off her finery and kneel in penitence and adoration. And be changed," he said.
From BBC • Dec. 25, 2024
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
“Those are closets for telling the priests your sins. You go in there and kneel down and tell all the sins you committed during the past week.”
From "It All Comes Down to This" by Karen English
Vocabulary lists containing kneel
Unit 1: Telling Details
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Words with Two Past-Tense Forms That Creeped (or Crept) into English
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