kneel
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While he did receive support, he couldn’t anticipate Nate Boyer’s attempts to profit from the protest and steal credit from Kaepernick teammate Eric Reid for the idea to kneel.
From Salon ● Sep. 29, 2026
“Why are we going to kneel? Why are we going to lower our heads? Why are we going to be afraid?”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
It took several officers to get Hodgson to kneel on the ground.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 19, 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
The angel appears to kneel on a mysterious oval cloud, which envelops the sleeping disciples.
From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson
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
"He used to fight with me, but he also loved me," 10-year-old Asma says as she kneels at her younger brother's graveside.
From BBC ● Apr. 13, 2026
The principal dancer Joseph Gordon kneels before the limp body of Theo Rochios, a young student of the company-affiliated School of American Ballet.
From New York Times ● Feb. 16, 2024
Tara kneels at the shallow edge, giving her little sister last-minute instructions.
From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins
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
He had kneeled next to Derek almost all night, and when he tried to stand, his knees almost buckled.
From "The River" by Gary Paulsen
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
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
I knelt by her bed with it until she turned her head and drank.
From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff
About 40% of people in their 60s have some difficulty crouching, kneeling or stooping.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026
Ulrich Siegmund, tanned and smiling, chatted enthusiastically with the crowd, at one point kneeling to speak with a child in a wheelchair.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
He was found kneeling in front of a piano and striking the keys, in apparent distress.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026
Farinacci was allegedly seen kneeling near grass at the site of the latest blaze and was later found to have matches and a lighter, the Spokane County Sheriff said when he was arrested on Monday.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
In late June, our original garden-helper crew from Bancroft Elementary joined me for our first harvest, kneeling together in the dirt to tear off lettuce leaves and strip pea pods from their stems.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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