PROSTRATE in a Sentence
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64 example sentences for PROSTRATE, such as:
1. He stumbled over Luke's prostrate body.
2. They found him lying prostrate on the floor.
3. He used to prostrate himself before the idol.
4. They prostrated themselves before their king.
5. She was found prostrate on the floor of the cell.
2. They found him lying prostrate on the floor.
3. He used to prostrate himself before the idol.
4. They prostrated themselves before their king.
5. She was found prostrate on the floor of the cell.
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Meanings and Examples of PROSTRATE
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prostrate
v. put or throw flat with face down; cause to lie flat
Classic Sentence: (56 in 4 pages)
1 The lawn was covered with prostrate men, too tired to walk farther, too weak from wounds to move.
2 The ambulance men hurrying here and there among the prostrate forms frequently stepped on wounded men, so thickly packed were the rows, and those trodden upon stared stolidly up, waiting their turn.
3 As she lay prostrate, too weak to fight off memories and worries, they rushed at her like buzzards waiting for death.
4 The Yankees had the South prostrate and they intended to keep it so.
5 "I heard what you said about Scarlett too," cried Melanie, swinging on the stout old lady with the air of a duelist who, having withdrawn a blade from one prostrate opponent, turns hungrily toward another.
6 As strange misgrown masses gather in the knot-holes of the noblest oaks when prostrate, so from the points which the whale's eyes had once occupied, now protruded blind bulbs, horribly pitiable to see.
7 He now rejoiced in the possession of a small weapon with which he could prostrate his comrade at the first signs of a cross-examination.
8 He could feel the onward swing of the regiment about him and he conceived of a thunderous, crushing blow that would prostrate the resistance and spread consternation and amazement for miles.
9 Mrs. Shelby smiled as she saw a prostrate lot of chickens and ducks, over which Chloe stood, with a very grave face of consideration.
10 The soft, earnest, quiet moonbeam looks in fixedly, marking the bars of the grated windows on the prostrate, sleeping forms.
11 The knight stooped his head, and kissed the hand of the lovely Sovereign by whom his valour had been rewarded; and then, sinking yet farther forward, lay prostrate at her feet.
12 Take it, then, unasked," said Richard; "the lion preys not on prostrate carcasses.
13 The Jew again bade her good-night, and, bestowing a sly kick upon the prostrate form of Mr. Sikes while her back was turned, groped downstairs.
14 Trembling in every joint, from cold and exhaustion, he made an effort to stand upright; but, shuddering from head to foot, fell prostrate on the ground.
15 The red man opened the lantern and turned it upon the figure of the prostrate boy.
Example Sentence:
1 The young mother was prostrate with grief at her baby's death from pneumonia.
2 He stumbled over Luke's prostrate body.
3 She was found prostrate on the floor of the cell.
4 They found him lying prostrate on the floor.
5 The prisoners were forced to lie prostrate in front of their captors.
6 In The King and l, Anna refuses to kneel down and prostrate herself before the king, for she feels that to do so would debase her position.
7 He used to prostrate himself before the idol.
8 They prostrated themselves before their king.