Sample Sentences for
prostrate
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    "It's going to rain, I think," she told the prostrate group in the parlor, and the news was received with little moans of gratitude.  (source)
    prostrate = lying down
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    Men in uniform were hugging each other, laughing, shouting; others were weeping; some knelt or lay prostrate, and Ender knew they were caught up in prayer.  (source)
    prostrate = lying face downward on the ground
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    suffering from dysentery, my father was prostrate on his cot, with another five sick inmates nearby.†  (source)
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    Coach Warner himself grabbed Tino, who was still standing over Erik's prostrate body.†  (source)
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    But that kind of opportunity seems hardly worth the bowing and scraping and intellectual prostration necessary to maintain it.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    We walked to within three meters of the Lord of the Radch, and Seivarden knelt, and then prostrated herself.†  (source)
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    A click; the room was darkened; and suddenly, on the screen above the Master's head, there were the Penitentes of Acoma prostrating themselves before Our Lady, and wailing as John had heard them wail, confessing their sins before Jesus on the Cross, before the eagle image of Pookong.†  (source)
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    I found the religious prostrations of my saber-rattling born-again neighbors tedious.†  (source)
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    It is a hymn of thanksgiving, and man remembers God in it, and prostrates himself and gives thanks for the Everlasting Mercy.†  (source)
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    "Thank God," said Boris fervently, falling to the concrete to prostrate himself before the Lord.†  (source)
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    You would like, if you could, to interpret the patient's prostration in the Presence, his self-abhorrence and utter knowledge of his sins (yes, Wormwood, a clearer knowledge even than yours) on the analogy of your own choking and paralysing sensations when you encounter the deadly air that breathes from the heart of Heaven.†  (source)
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    We have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne, and have implored its interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the ministry and Parliament.†  (source)
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    Hitherto she had steadily borne up against the pressure of her malady, and had not betaken herself finally to bed; but, on the closing in of the evening of my arrival at the house, she succumbed (as her brother told me at night with inexpressible agitation) to the prostrating power of the destroyer; and I learned that the glimpse I had obtained of her person would thus probably be the last I should obtain—that the lady, at least while living, would be seen by me no more.†  (source)
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