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
Dr Baksheiev and his team would have to use anything available as an examination table, including old sofas, meaning he would have to kneel on the floor to conduct examinations.
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2025
"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
As soon as the action on the board began to grow tense or complicated, the boy would grow more pensive and often have to kneel on the bench to get a better perspective.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
Seeing all this, a woman kneels and cries out between sobs.
From Barron's ● Jul. 4, 2026
Ricardo García kneels before the towering tree in the middle of town and, like his brothers and father before him, prepares for a journey taking him 100 feet up and 2,500 years into the past.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 20, 2023
Yancey kneels in a pasture already eaten down by the cows and grabs a bunch of fescue, showing how it’s been chewed back.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 18, 2023
She kneels, and Huxley walks around her; then he kneels, and she walks around him.
From New York Times ● May 11, 2023
Axel can’t help himself, he turns too, kneels down next to Ray.
From "A Bird Will Soar" by Alison Green Myers
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
In the barn loft, Dallas aimed his binoculars at Mr. Trepid, Florida aimed a camera, and Sairy and Tiller kneeled behind them.
From "Ruby Holler" by Sharon Creech
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
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
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
On reaching his hundred, Head saluted the crowd and then knelt to kiss a batting surface that treats him so well.
From BBC ● Dec. 19, 2025
Penelope gave a gentle downward tug on the TOT, and the bird knelt low enough for her to climb aboard.
From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood
In the darkness, partially kneeling, gasping for air and practically immobile, he suffered aftershock after aftershock.
From Barron's ● Jul. 5, 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
That same year, he and his deputies were photographed kneeling and speaking with protesters in the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd, an action he has since recast as praying.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 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
It was thus that Nighthand found them: Christopher kneeling next to Mal, the body of their most loved companion held between them.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
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