KNEEL in a Sentence
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77 example sentences for KNEEL, such as:
1. Better die standing than live kneeling.
2. He would kneel and pray with others and be happy.
3. Let us kneel down and try if we cannot remember a prayer.
4. It seemed as though he dared not kneel directly before God.
5. They gaze on the darkness, they kneel, and they clasp their hands.
2. He would kneel and pray with others and be happy.
3. Let us kneel down and try if we cannot remember a prayer.
4. It seemed as though he dared not kneel directly before God.
5. They gaze on the darkness, they kneel, and they clasp their hands.
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Meanings and Examples of KNEEL
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kneel
n. supporting yourself on your knees
v. rest one's weight on one's knees
Classic Sentence: (73 in 5 pages)
1 He obtained this favour; they bandaged his eyes, and bade him kneel down.
2 They knew not what it was, they knew not where they were; but both of them, the man and the child, the penitent and the innocent, felt that they must kneel.
3 They gaze on the darkness, they kneel, and they clasp their hands.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—THE CONVENT FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF PRINCIPL...
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—THE CONVENT FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF PRINCIPL...
4 It seemed as though he dared not kneel directly before God.
5 Beautiful with a beauty which was wholly feminine and angelic, with a complete beauty which would have made Petrarch sing and Dante kneel.
6 He had to undress and then kneel and say his own prayers and be in bed before the gas was lowered so that he might not go to hell when he died.
7 He had to kneel before the minister of the Holy Ghost and tell over his hidden sins truly and repentantly.
8 He would kneel and pray with others and be happy.
9 Let us kneel down and try if we cannot remember a prayer.
10 "Then you'll need to kneel down, and me too," she said, laying the shawl out for that purpose.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER I. ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN
Context Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER I. ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN
11 On the lower step of this throne the champion was made to kneel down.
12 Then she saw them enter and proceed to the chancel and kneel; and the service seemed to go on.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: 7 The Morning and the Evening of a Day
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: 7 The Morning and the Evening of a Day
13 Carreen, who was small for her age, could not kneel comfortably at the table and so knelt facing a chair, her elbows on the seat.
14 All those officers, when they see what I carry under the cloth, pull up their horses and kneel down on the ground in the road until we pass.
15 The lawyer did not answer immediately, so Block repeated his request and lowered his head as if about to kneel down.
Example Sentence:
1 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.
2 She had to kneel down on the floor: in another minute there was not even room for this.
3 Better die standing than live kneeling.
4 If, indeed, such salvation be possible, for this girl, this child, the native of a Christian land, worse than many a little heathen who says its prayers to Brahma and kneels before Juggernaut.