How to Use prostrate in a Sentence

prostrate

verb

• The alacrity with which Hong Kong's private firms sought to prostrate themselves before the state drew scorn in the global business press.
  — Fortune, 24 Aug. 2019
• Keep your arms out while prostrating your upper body toward the floor.
  — Malia Wollan, New York Times, 9 May 2018
• Her mother stopped to help and a white crowd attacked, leaving the mother prostrate with a gaping hole in her head.
  — Allison Keyes, Smithsonian, 30 June 2017
• Many of the visitors prostrated themselves at her feet and then took selfies.
  — Niha Masih, Washington Post, 13 June 2019
• One protester crawled part of the route prostrated on her hands and knees, dragging bricks and empty soda cans behind her.
  — NBC News, 8 Dec. 2019
• The Establishment, on the other hand, is terrified of any schism, and willing to prostrate itself in the service of unity.
  — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 28 Sep. 2017
• Inside a mosque in the college town of Eugene, a half-dozen men prostrated themselves on a carpet while another man led the midday prayers.
  — Washington Post, 9 June 2017
• Charlotte Eliot, 77 years old, resident of Greater Boston, popped over to see her son in London, stayed for 10 weeks, and left him prostrate with neurosis.
  — James Parker, The Atlantic, 8 Dec. 2022
• Others came to venerate the teacher, prostrating at his feet.
  — Eliza Griswold, The New Yorker, 23 July 2019
• In the Visa Temple, where devotees leave their shoes, phones, and purses at the door before prostrating to Balaji, the string of attacks seem to strengthen people’s appeals to God.
  — Suman Naishadham, Slate Magazine, 3 Apr. 2017
• Local officials across hard-knock America prostrate themselves for a chance to host it.
  — Vauhini Vara, The Atlantic, 12 Feb. 2021
• The monks, all old men, prostrate themselves in unison with the congregation, while a band of musicians makes a whining cacophony with their zithers in the background.
  — Hanya Yanagihara, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Jan. 2022
• Customers had to trudge to a mattress store and awkwardly prostrate themselves on numerous surfaces before choosing one to use for a decade.
  — Farhad Manjoo, New York Times, 27 July 2016
• This year, a host of American cities vilely prostrated themselves to Amazon in the hopes of winning its promised, new second headquarters.
  — Bruce Sterling, The Atlantic, 12 Feb. 2018
• But my resolution wasn’t a self-righteous, self-prostrating chore.
  — Max De Haldevang, Quartz, 27 Dec. 2019
• Cheney’s once promising career in the House of Representatives was over, at least for now, a casualty of her refusal to prostrate herself at the altar of Trump.
  — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2022
• During that service, in a sign of humble obedience, Francis prostrated himself for a few minutes on the basilica floor.
  — NBC News, 11 Apr. 2020
• Cities and states, for one, seem eager to prostrate themselves and blame themselves for not offering up the greatest financial sacrifice of public money.
  — Patrick Sisson, Curbed, 14 Nov. 2018
• Naird’s situation is of a man with ramrod-straight posture prostrated and disarrayed at many odd angles.
  — Troy Patterson, The New Yorker, 28 May 2020
• Behind them lay almost unimaginable trials and privations that resulted in the deaths of three of their group, prostrated many with illness and forced each to endure long periods of hunger.
  — Larry Rohter, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Apr. 2023
• Not even South Carolina’s Lindsey Graham may dream to prostrate himself so completely.
  — Kyle Whitmire, al, 15 Nov. 2019
• Perry, having prostrated himself before the Senate, was confirmed in March.
  — Bess Levin, The Hive, 26 July 2017
• Nevertheless, Musk seems to go out of his way to prostrate himself before Chinese authorities.
  — Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 4 Nov. 2022
• Without a Jagjaguwar deal, the team debated continuing to prostrate themselves to labels.
  — Steven Zeitchik, Washington Post, 15 June 2019
• Dressed in funereal black, Mr Taguchi (pictured) prostrated himself in contrition before a scrum of reporters after his release on bail for drugs charges.
  — The Economist, 12 Sep. 2019
• In a display of reverence, all attendees of the Assembly humbly prostrated themselves, paying their respects to the Collection.
  — Jon Stojan, USA TODAY, 25 July 2023
• Such actions are unprecedented in Thailand, where those waiting for a royal motorcade regularly sit on the ground or prostrate themselves.
  — Grant Peck and Chris Blake, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Oct. 2020
• His father merely wanted Mugur to prostrate himself with repentance and patriotic vows.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2021
• Inside is a waxwork model of Menelik sitting on his original throne; some visitors prostrate themselves in deference.
  — The Economist, 7 Nov. 2019
• The public became accustomed to images of generals and politicians prostrating themselves in front of their constitutional monarch.
  — Hannah Beech, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2017

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024