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Example sentences for "prostration"

Lexicographically close words:
prostitution; prostrate; prostrated; prostrates; prostrating; prostrations; prosy; protagonist; protagonists; protasis
  1. Prepared, he restrained the latter from a prostration in the hall of the church.

  2. Rhoda Ammidon gave an uncontrollable gasp as the Chinese woman sank in a fluttering prostration of color at Jeremy's feet.

  3. So he made a prostration of thanks to the Bountiful and the Exalted; and then he came forward and gave Sharrkan joy of his recovery.

  4. She replied, O Commander of the Faithful, I saw thee lying prostrate before us and thought of thy prostration in death before Almighty Allah, of thy departure from the world and of thy separation from us.

  5. With the downfall of Napoleon was involved the prostration of France.

  6. Remember their troubles are real to them, and are due to exhaustion or prostration of the nervous system and this condition, as before described, produces horrid feelings and sensations of almost every part of the body.

  7. There is great weakness, prostration and depression.

  8. There is frequently great muscular weakness, great prostration after the least exertion, and a feeling of numbness, tingling, and neuralgic pains.

  9. Favorable cases terminate at this time by crisis; the prostration is extreme; but convalescence is rapid.

  10. Prostration is extreme and it often ends in death.

  11. Prostration with cool skin, temperature often below normal, 95-96, pulse is small and frequent, sometimes restlessness and delirium.

  12. In all forms convalescence is often gradual on account of the bodily and mental prostration with general soreness for several days.

  13. In severe forms of the disease the "Rest Cure" and feeding described under Nervous Prostration should be used.

  14. A state of extreme prostration and depression with failure of circulation.

  15. Often this is the main reason for the relaxation of muscle tissue and the sense of prostration that has come over them.

  16. Ordinarily a snake-bite is followed by a sense of extreme terror and prostration that lowers the resistive vitality.

  17. During this prostration two essential elements of prosperity have been most abundant--labor and capital.

  18. Speculation as to the causes for this prostration might be indulged in without profit, because as many theories would be advanced as there would be independent writers--those who expressed their own views without borrowing--upon the subject.

  19. If he exceeds that limit ominous symptoms of nervous prostration will be almost sure to follow.

  20. There is one famous weed, called by the natives el agrio, which is a certain cure for sunstroke, or for prostration from exposure to the sun or over-exertion, and is used for both men and animals.

  21. It has revived during the prostration of that republic, and although the liberal element is still in power, the Government is so weak that it cannot defy the Church as it once could.

  22. Tyro patted him, and spoke to him to give him courage; but knowing the impossibility of mounting in the state of prostration in which he found the horse, he took him by the bridle and continued his route, dragging him after him.

  23. Sudden and great prostration ensued, with a peculiar hollow cough and tone of voice, or loss of voice, constant fever, especially nocturnal, and a degree of drowsiness.

  24. This acute state lasted for four days, and suddenly disappeared leaving great prostration behind.

  25. Some of the cases were severe, ending either in slight bronchitis or pneumonia, accompanied with great prostration of the vital powers.

  26. A complete prostration of strength marked its commencement, the legs swelled, the "sinews shrunk as black as any coal.

  27. Such, to quote no other example, was the effect of the prostration of the Roman type of civilisation by the warlike and predatory tribes of Northern Europe.

  28. I have been a constipated dyspeptic for many years, and the effect has been to reduce me in flesh, and to render me liable to no little nerve prostration and sleeplessness, especially after preaching or any special mental effort.

  29. At last, the unfortunate man, weakened by ill-treatment, fell into a prostration so profound that sight and hearing failed him.

  30. Captain Nemo had somewhat rallied from the prostration which had overcome him, and his eyes shone with their wonted fire.

  31. He no longer thought, he no longer lived; he was a prey to that prostration of the entire being which follows upon great crises.

  32. We know too much to listen to the talented child, and as for the talented child it generally developes into a young person who has nervous prostration at the mere idea of playing before anyone.

  33. After luncheon I found cook had broken my best cut-glass salad bowl, and two old Worcester plates, and then finished off with nervous prostration on the kitchen floor.

  34. The spine grew worse in spite of every appliance, and the nervous sensitiveness and prostration were increasing.

  35. Egmont was instructed by the regent to represent to the king the deplorable condition of the land, the prostration of public credit, the decay of religion, and the symptoms of discontent and disloyalty in the people.

  36. Under the influence of medical ideas suggested to him his symptoms simulate first Diabetes next Heart disease and his prostration becomes profound.

  37. In cases of nervous prostration this manner of treatment, which demands the serious co-operation and attention of the patient, which lasts a long time and at first takes no notice of the continuance of the phenomena, is difficult.

  38. Well, Marie has developed neuralgia, grip, and nervous prostration in swift succession, and he has been called in to attend her.

  39. Her ideas were all in direct opposition to Morton’s, and the poor girl almost fretted herself into nervous prostration trying to please them both.


  40. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "prostration" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    adoration; agony; anemia; anguish; atony; bale; bend; bitterness; bow; breakdown; care; collapse; convulsion; cowardice; crouch; cult; curtsy; debility; deflation; depression; desolation; despair; devotion; downfall; draining; duck; dullness; exhaustion; extremity; fall; fatigue; fawning; grief; groveling; heartache; homage; impotence; inclination; infelicity; insinuation; kowtow; lamentation; languor; lassitude; listlessness; lounging; lying; melancholia; melancholy; misery; nod; obeisance; overthrow; overturn; parasitism; pining; prostration; reclining; recumbency; repose; reverence; sabotage; sadness; salaam; salutation; salute; scrape; servility; shock; softness; sorrow; sponging; sprawl; squat; stoop; submission; subversion; sycophancy; tire; truckling; upheaval; upset; veneration; weariness; woe; worshiping