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
The poacher offerered to kneel and apologise, telling Silva that he only came to the field to look at birds.
From BBC • Dec. 28, 2025
In another instance captured on video, a U.S. citizen is splayed out on a sidewalk in El Monte as two men with vests that read “Border Patrol” kneel over him.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 8, 2025
"You don’t know whether to stand . . . or kneel."
From Salon • May 13, 2025
I couldn’t help the tears that broke my face into a million bits, which made her kneel and hold me.
From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago
Vocabulary lists containing kneel
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Words with Two Past-Tense Forms That Creeped (or Crept) into English
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