prostrate

But as Argentine players lay prostrate on the pitch and Argentine fans lost their minds, they didn’t care that it wasn’t pretty.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 4, 2026

Department of Health and Human Services now requires consent for breast, pelvic, prostrate and rectal exams for “educational and training purposes” performed by medical students, nurse practitioners or physician assistants.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 1, 2024

Their routine ended with both back on the ice, lying prostrate, chests heaving.

From BBC ● Feb. 13, 2024

He has given speeches promoting cancer prostrate prevention, trying to warn others to be checked.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2022

Mother comes to my side, and her strong arms keep me from falling prostrate.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

In her 1910 autobiography, she wrote of the Santa Ana wind that “its breath dries up the plants, gives headaches to people, and prostrates them … it uproots trees, tears off roofs, and devastates fields.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2021

Marianne & Leonard prostrates itself at the feet of Ihlen’s beauty and celebrates her nurturing spirit but doesn’t seem interested in her inner life, or indeed her suffering.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 23, 2019

Fazal’s Karim smiles a lot, seems absolutely enchanted by English weather and, at their second meeting, without provocation, prostrates himself to kiss Victoria’s feet.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 25, 2017

The other prostrates himself, back bent, head lowered, with his right arm outstretched over clusters of bananas and other produce offered as homage to the allegorical queen.

From The New Yorker ● Sep. 24, 2016

A hailstorm in spring prostrates, but does not kill.

From 'Gloria Victis!' A Romance by Ossip Schubin

Some clasped their hands together, while others prostrated themselves.

From BBC ● Apr. 17, 2026

After walking out, Thaksin placed a flower wreath and prostrated before a portrait of Thailand’s king and queen at the gate of the terminal.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 21, 2023

“I am going back to California,” she recalled telling them, “and unless you tell me — let’s face it, I have prostrated myself — now, yes or no, that’s the end of it.”

From New York Times ● Oct. 11, 2022

“The French justice system has prostrated itself before a writer,” said Mehana Mouhou, a lawyer involved in the suit against the author.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 21, 2020

Later on, Úrsula had put candles on it and had prostrated herself before it, not suspecting that instead of a saint she was adoring almost four hundred pounds of gold.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

But it was his act of prostrating in prayer after goals that reverberated in the wider global consciousness, even among those who don't follow football.

From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2022

Jerusalem Magistrate's Court ruled in favour of three appellants who had been banned from the Old City for 15 days for prostrating themselves and intoning a core Jewish prayer at the compound.

From Reuters ● May 22, 2022

Can you capture his magic without prostrating yourself before the sorcerer?

From New York Times ● Nov. 3, 2021

In a mainly Latinx suburb in Florida, neighbors greet each morning by prostrating themselves before mute, bird-bodied angels that sit and s**t on their roofs.

From Salon ● May 17, 2021

“No!” shrieked Winky, prostrating herself at Mr. Crouch’s feet.

From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling