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

Jefferson Davis lies prostrate at the Valentine, a downtown Richmond museum.

From New York Times ● Dec. 26, 2022

Commoners had to prostrate themselves before high-ranking chiefs.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

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

I quite like this tableau, the mystic bard shuffling sadly on to a plane, foregoing his ancient principle of opposing a supertax, as his agent prostrates himself on the ground for his lost 700 grand.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 9, 2020

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

Firmly and ardently she believes in Jesus Christ, her Redeemer, and with all her lofty intensity she prostrates herself in worship.

From Heroic Spain by Elizabeth Boyle O'Reilly

Some clasped their hands together, while others prostrated themselves.

From BBC ● Apr. 17, 2026

At another point of the ceremony, the nine lay prostrated on a carpet in front of the basilica’s central altar in a sign of obedience, humility and giving of oneself.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 25, 2021

“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

Earlier on Friday in St Peter’s Basilica, Francis presided at a “Passion of the Lord” service, during which he prostrated himself in prayer on the marble pavement.

From Reuters ● Mar. 30, 2018

As I prostrated, the Mutawaf fended pilgrims off to keep me from being trampled.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey

A few months before Khan was elected prime minister, local media carried photos of the couple prostrating at the Baba Farid shrine.

From Reuters ● May 16, 2023

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

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

The kowtow meant prostrating oneself before the emperor or a patriarch and knocking one’s head on the ground.

From New York Times ● Jun. 20, 2020

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

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