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Date nights every other week would plainly drive up child-care costs and render average couples with two toddlers at home prostrate with envy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

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

Leading robotic urological surgeon Professor Prokar Dasgupta said it felt "almost as if I was there" as he carried out a prostrate removal on Paul Buxton.

From BBC ● Mar. 6, 2026

George’s ambitious underlings strive for his intermittent approval and prostrate themselves, enduring petty humiliations only to crawl back and beg for more.

From New York Times ● May 30, 2024

She splayed herself, prostrate on the ground, her right cheek pressed against the pavement, which was searingly hot from the midday sun.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman

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

The songs are in praise of the deity, at whose and the soothsayer’s feet the applicant prostrates himself, and invokes their aid.

From Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston

There, the four candidates for bishop prostrated themselves before an altar, their heads buried in red velvet pillows.

From BBC ● Jul. 1, 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

During that ceremony, Mr. Ogundipe’s family presented Ms. Imoru’s family with food items like yams, oil and rice, and Mr. Ogundipe and his groomsmen prostrated themselves in front of her family.

From New York Times ● May 20, 2022

Earlier on Friday, Francis prostrated himself on the floor of an empty St. Peter’s Basilica to pray at a “Passion of the Lord” service.

From Reuters ● Apr. 2, 2021

Great Ceremony of the Celebration of the Return to Egypt has begun!” she chanted, and all four Egyptians prostrated themselves before the egg crate and the birdbath.

From "The Egypt Game" by Zilpha Keatley Snyder

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 we must never underestimate a strain of masochism in some people, the desire to bow down to the mighty as if they were prostrating themselves before a deity.

From Salon ● Feb. 18, 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

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