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

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

"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

“I kneel before the Immortal: before the eternal human soul. I offer you my knife and my protection, until the day of my death.”

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell