kneel

“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

Once, during a demonstration outside a cafeteria, as police were about to arrest the demonstrators, Jackson suggested they kneel and recite the Lord’s Prayer.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 17, 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

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

She crossed the space between them in a matter of strides to kneel beside him.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray

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

Hawk kneels at Tim’s quilt square and gives words to the truth he’s carried in his heart for 3½ decades: “He was the man I loved.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2024

Braving snakes and brushing feeder ticks from his clothes and gear, he kneels beside a pine tree on the Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge and starts drilling holes.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 3, 2023

Beneath the crosses, Therese kneels on the hard floor, rocking back and forth.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

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

She kneeled beside him and hugged him around his neck.

From "Tiger, Tiger" by Lynne Reid Banks

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

As a skinny teenage busboy, Juan Romero knelt beside a mortally wounded Bobby Kennedy at the Ambassador Hotel.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 20, 2025

As she knelt to bind him, Ashmodai howled, “What, do you enjoy this cage? You would condemn us to shadow, together forever?”

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny

A resident driving in the area where the fire started spotted a man kneeling in grass before standing up and “looking very nervous,” Nowels said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

In March, he won the 2026 Bright Sky Australian Pro Adaptive Surfing Championship as the kneeling champion and proudly held the Welsh flag aloft on the beach at Byron Bay, New South Wales.

From BBC ● Jul. 26, 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

On Wednesday, Ben Gvir sparked an outcry internationally but also within his own government by publishing a video of dozens of activists kneeling with their foreheads on the ground and their hands tied.

From Barron's ● May 22, 2026

I looked at my sister kneeling beside me in the light of burning Holland.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom