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kneel

verb as in get down on one's knees

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Example Sentences

She knelt before them, one at at a time, and silently paid her gratitude.

He continued: "Only a few seconds after punches were aimed by both of you, you tripped Mussie and he fell to the ground... As he knelt, you rained further punches down on his head."

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He knelt before the body bag and pulled back the cover.

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He would kneel down on the pavement and look them in the eye, ferry them to appointments, visit them in hospitals, work tirelessly to earn their trust and try to get them into housing.

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.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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