kneel
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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
Flood waters also rushed through subway stations in New York City on Monday evening, pouring into subway cars and forcing passengers to kneel on their seats to avoid getting wet.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2025
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
“Oohs” rippled through the class as students began to kneel down in position to begin the choreography.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2025
He moved to kneel beside her, shaking her gently by her shoulders.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
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
The croc is famously seen in the scene where Kozlowski's character is attacked as she kneels next to a creek.
From BBC ● Dec. 23, 2024
Then this glass box, multipurpose space, lobby cafe — it all kneels down to the community.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2024
My mom wordlessly kneels to gather scraps of drawings from our game of Honor Pictionary and stacks them into a neat pile.
From "Everything, Everything" by Nicola Yoon
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
She kneeled and opened one of the cardboard boxes and pulled out a small statue of the Santo Niño de Atocha.
From "Breaking Through" by Francisco Jiménez
Some players knelt at the final whistle, head down, staring at the turf.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
Thailand's foreign ministry denied Thursday that French President Emmanuel Macron knelt before the country's king during his state visit to Paris this week, after an AI-generated picture circulated online.
From Barron's ● Jul. 2, 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
Jason knelt, letting them jump all over him while Brigit looked around and Ella went to Masterji Thakur's desk.
From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton
SHANGHAI—The ancient Dragon Flower Temple these days is full of young people burning incense, chanting mantras and kneeling in front of Buddhist statues.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 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
In March, he won the 2026 Bright Sky Australian Pro Adaptive Surfing Championship as the kneeling champion and proudly held the Welsh flag aloft on the beach at Byron Bay, New South Wales.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
There were also no images of Macron kneeling before the king in official photographs published by Thailand's foreign ministry of the leaders at the decoration ceremony and state dinner, an AFP review found.
From Barron's ● Jul. 2, 2026
La Llorona remained kneeling, clutching the roses to her chest.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
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