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

"You don’t know whether to stand . . . or kneel."

From Salon ● May 13, 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 kneel in the corner and pull back the carpet, tuck the key there, and carefully push the carpet back down on the tack strip.

From "The Adoration of Jenna Fox" by Mary E. Pearson

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

From Barron's ● Jul. 4, 2026

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

From BBC ● Dec. 15, 2025

He kneels to the ground in the video so officers can take him into custody.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2024

“He kneels down next to me,” he recalled.

From New York Times ● Oct. 18, 2023

Then he kneels next to my chair and wraps an arm around me.

From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed

On Tuesday in Glen Allen, onlookers kneeled and offered fruit, police officers shook the monks' hands, and the monks presented people with blessing threads and other gifts.

From Barron's ● Feb. 3, 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

Daddy kneeled next to Uncle Edisto on the other side of the bed and stroked his pale forehead.

From Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles

When they walked from the military transports, some of them knelt on the tarmac and kissed the ground.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026

Every eye in the stadium was fixed on Wilson as he knelt in the starting blocks awaiting the start of the 400 meters.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 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

Twelve fired FBI agents are alleging that they were unlawfully sacked because they knelt during a racial justice protest in Washington DC five years ago.

From BBC ● Dec. 9, 2025

She grabbed it and knelt before the lamppost.

From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton

In the darkness, partially kneeling, gasping for air and practically immobile, he suffered aftershock after aftershock.

From Barron's ● Jul. 5, 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

A small enclosure was erected as artisan Gianluca Galli began the restoration - kneeling before the mosaic as he cut new pieces of stone by hand.

From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2026

In Spell 16, a funerary procession, stacked like a doll’s house, shows Ankhmerwer kneeling before three representations of the sun god.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 30, 2026

The princess started to scream again, then noticed the hairy man kneeling at her side.

From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley