Sample sentences for PROSTRATE

(click/touch triangles for details)

Definition

lying down - typically face downward on the ground as in submission

It is their custom to worship five times a day, prostrate and facing toward Mecca.

prostrate = lying down - typically face downward on the ground as in submission

When she can, she likes to pray in a prostrate position to symbolize her humility.

prostrate = lying down - typically face downward on the ground as in submission

"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.
Natalie Babbitt -- Tuck Everlasting

prostrate = lying down

And all the region lay prostrate As if in a swoon.
Boris Pasternak -- Doctor Zhivago
Ralph accordingly went off with the cicerone while Isabel sat down on a prostrate column near the foundations of the Capitol.
Henry James -- The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 1
With a motion of his head, he indicated his prostrate helpless frame.
Ivan Turgenev -- Fathers and Sons
The daughter lay prostrate and motionless; she had swooned.
Edgar Allan Poe -- The Murders in the Rue Morgue
"Oh my brother!" she cried with a movement of still deeper prostration.
Henry James -- The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 2

(editor's note: 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.)

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.
Robert Louis Stevenson -- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Prostration complete, the doctor said.
Leo Tolstoy -- Anna Karenina

But that kind of opportunity seems hardly worth the bowing and scraping and intellectual prostration necessary to maintain it.
Robert M. Pirsig -- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Several men lift the prostrate BRADY, and stretch him across three chairs.
Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee -- Inherit the Wind
Mae prostrates herself as well.
Libba Bray -- Sweet Far Thing
I rest again at the end of the car, prostrate between the top rails.
Sara Gruen -- Water for Elephants
My Lord, I prostrate myself before you, I am your most faithful —
J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
All my tactics lay in simply being utterly annihilated and prostrate before her purity.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- Crime and Punishment
The voice of Labor, despised and outraged; a mighty giant, lying prostrate—mountainous, colossal, but blinded, bound, and ignorant of his strength.
Upton Sinclair -- The Jungle
Winston was not hurt, only prostrated.
George Orwell -- 1984
Tom stood over the prostrate man.
John Steinbeck -- The Grapes of Wrath
All he wanted was that I sit beside him as he lay prostrate on his bedpad and gently pat him on the back with a slow, steady rhythm.
Chang-rae Lee -- A Gesture Life

Dictionary / pronunciation — Google^®Dictionary list — Onelook.com^®

Search for other examples by interest

Interest — Source