Sample Sentences forprostrate (editor-reviewed)
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It is their custom to worship five times a day, prostrate and facing toward Mecca.prostrate = lying face downward on the ground
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When she can, she likes to pray in a prostrate position to symbolize her humility.
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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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"Thank God," said Boris fervently, falling to the concrete to prostrate himself before the Lord.† (source)
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Coach Warner himself grabbed Tino, who was still standing over Erik's prostrate body.† (source)
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I slept after the prostration of the day, with a stringent and profound slumber which not even the nightmares that wrung me could avail to break.† (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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In some, the women were prostrated as if-God forbid this thought-in sujda for prayer.† (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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The pain and alarm vanished at once, and the prostrate hobbits leaped to their feet.† (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)
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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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Then one day she sat and watched the shadow of herself going about tending store and prostrating itself before Jody, while all the time she herself sat under a shady tree with the wind blowing through her hair and her clothes.† (source)
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