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Example sentences for "prostrate"

Lexicographically close words:
prostitute; prostituted; prostitutes; prostituting; prostitution; prostrated; prostrates; prostrating; prostration; prostrations
  1. Uncle Moses saw that figure, and then hurried up to his two prostrate boys.

  2. Then he made a wild bound to the door, over the prostrate forms of David and Clive.

  3. He chose those of an animal that had been killed several days before, and while the Prophet was prostrate as he prayed, the rascal covered the nape of his neck and his shoulders with the offal.

  4. It was he who knelt first by the side of the prostrate man, holding the lantern above the almost unrecognizable face.

  5. Too prostrate to question his nurses, Derrick could only lie with closed eyes helpless and weary.

  6. Meanwhile I had crept near the prostrate man.

  7. Luke, upon whom we had no sooner turned our backs than we caught glimpses here and there of other prostrate forms which moved once under our eyes and then moved no more.

  8. And, hardly knowing what she did, she stooped down and peered into the glassy eyes of the prostrate man.

  9. I rushed forward with a cry of joy, and threw myself prostrate at her feet!

  10. Behold, Wild dogs and wolves with hungry snarl contend Over thy prostrate mighty ones; and rend Their quivering limbs, ere life hath lost its hold.

  11. Johnson also placed at the prostrate figure's feet the rest of the eatables in the cabin.

  12. No longer the prostrate victim of the blind play of instinct but the self-reliant mistress of her body and her own will, the new mother finds in her child the fulfilment of her own desires.

  13. In crystallizing and codifying this contradiction, the Church not only solidified its own power over men but reduced women to the most abject and prostrate slavery.

  14. It was covered with charred trunks, either prostrate or standing, which crocked our clothes and hands, and we could not easily have distinguished a bear there by his color.

  15. Here your inch, your two and your three inch stuff begin to be, and Mr. Sawyer marks off those spaces which decide the destiny of so many prostrate forests.

  16. A belt of dead trees stood all around the lake, some far out in the water, with others prostrate behind them, and they made the shore, for the most part, almost inaccessible.

  17. He called it cowosnebagosar, which name implies that it grows where old prostrate trunks have collapsed and rotted.

  18. I had just selected the prostrate trunk of a huge pine, five or six feet in diameter, and was crawling under it, when, luckily, the boat arrived.

  19. At first the prostrate figure on the landing at the head of the stairs escaped his view.

  20. When the Chief, shepherding and guarding the rear flanks, emerged around the elbow of woods and saw his people thus prostrate before the shining wonder, he too was moved to follow their example, for his heart went cold within him.

  21. And that sought object was the bottle, the contents of which had sent the prostrate figure into its present state.

  22. The gesture of his one arm which indicated the prostrate figure was eloquent of the contempt he felt and the posture of his body, bent forward from his hips, was indication of his sincerity.

  23. Nothing could possibly present a greater contrast to the tone of religious profession which was, at this period, obtaining a wide reception among men than that in which old Noble lay prostrate in his closet before his God.

  24. Far out into the slobodas and meadows the populace streamed to welcome their hero, falling prostrate as he rode by with his companion-in-arms, and calling him their saviour; some were said to have hailed him as their Tzar.

  25. Their Patriarch was dead and there was none whom they could call Tzar, but with pathetic eagerness they ran to prostrate themselves before their restored Bogoroditza of Vladimir.

  26. She often remained in the church all night, bathed in tears and prostrate in prayer.

  27. Then Olcan flung himself prostrate in the road before the horses.

  28. The prostrate one rose at length, as by a sudden effort, to the sitting posture.

  29. There was not the slightest risk in going to the schoolmistress's cottage, and the sisters went down, to find Mrs Thorne weak and almost prostrate with illness and anxiety, but ready to draw herself up stiffly to receive her visitors.

  30. The speaker nodded towards the prostrate captives, who were quickly kicked into a sitting posture and ordered to supply the key to the cipher.

  31. But Munro did not wait to be attacked; stepping over the prostrate bodies he followed up the advantage gained, and the pandies shrank from that fatal sword.

  32. I added his honors to his prostrate heart myself and my own beat at the prospect.

  33. They had been walking down the avenue, and she stopped because her eyes had been caught by a figure half sitting, half lying in the middle of the road, a prostrate bicycle near it.

  34. And why should not one prostrate one's self, breathing softly--and touching one's awed forehead to the earth?

  35. Mary Magdalene, prostrate at the Master's feet, was being reenacted once more.

  36. No: it was as she thought and hoped--her own Horace standing over the prostrate body of her father, was guarding his hereditary enemy from the destroying Yorkists.

  37. They are evidently of the vassalage class of manners, and emphatically mark the prostrate distance that exists in no other condition of men than between the conqueror and the conquered.

  38. But mon-archs of this kind are less mischievous and less absurd than those before whom whole peoples prostrate themselves.

  39. There was the same white spotlessness, another kind-faced nurse, and another prostrate patient.

  40. When they got to the goosey-gander, he was lying prostrate on the ground.

  41. He was lying prostrate on the spot where he had alighted; and it looked as if he were ready to die.

  42. At the same moment a movement came from the woman in the corner; the two men glanced at them with a start of wonder; and as I had foreseen, they ran across and bent over the prostrate forms.

  43. We could not have held out much longer; our breath was coming in quick, painful gasps; Harry stumbled on one of the prostrate brutes and fell; I tried to lift him and was unequal to the task.

  44. Harry stood above the prostrate figure of the king, panting and furious.


  45. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "prostrate" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abject; afflict; anguish; beat; beaten; beggarly; bend; break; burn; bushed; confined; conquer; couch; couchant; crawling; cripple; crippled; crush; crushed; dash; dashed; dead; debased; debilitate; deck; deferential; demoralize; depressed; desolate; disable; disabled; disarm; disqualified; done; down; downcast; drained; drop; drown; embitter; enervate; exhaust; exhausted; fag; fagged; fallen; fatigue; fawning; fell; flag; flat; flatten; flattering; floor; gag; gone; grieve; ground; groveling; hamstring; handcuff; hangdog; harass; helpless; hew; hobble; humble; immobilize; incapacitate; incapacitated; ingratiating; inundate; invalidated; jade; knock; level; lolling; lounging; low; lowered; lying; manacle; mournful; muzzle; obsequious; oppress; overcome; override; overstrain; overturn; overwhelm; paralyze; paralyzed; parasitic; pooped; precipitate; prone; prostrate; quell; raze; recline; reclining; recumbent; reduce; reduced; reposing; servile; shake; shaken; shot; silence; smash; sniveling; sorrow; spent; sponging; sprawling; spread; strangle; stricken; subdue; subjugate; submerged; submissive; subservient; sunk; sunken; supine; suppress; sycophantic; throttle; throw; tire; tired; topple; torment; trip; truckling; truss; tumble; undo; undone; unman; unmanned; unnerve; unnerved; unstrung; upset; vanquish; weaken; wear; weary; whacked; whelm; wilt; wind


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    prostrate vines; prostrated himself; prostrated myself