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How to use prostrate in a sentence

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Another problem was that she was unwilling to submit to her dictates or prostrate herself in abject submission.
Standard and prostrate plants are now procurable from some of the larger nurseries.
As he lay prostrate, the thug stabbed him several times with a butterfly knife.
I soon settled in for some rigorous study, busying myself with my alternately prone and prostrate experiments.
I have no desire to break my back on the wheels of capitalism, or prostrate myself before it.
If the lama is a high Rinpoche or your own teacher, it is customary to prostrate three times upon arriving and once when leaving.
It is a low creeping bush with needle-like leaves, somewhat like a prostrate yew.
Your teacher will not wear curious robes or expect you to prostrate yourself every time he or she enters the room.
He is married to a shrewish wife who spends her days in curlers and her nights prostrate in their trashy trailer home.
Interestingly, Rembrandt overpainted the figure of a prostrate woman at Christ's feet with the present kneeling figure.
The poem satirizes merrily enough, being windy and rhapsodic, prostrate and profligate, swoony and bitter, and attacks various people.
Older studies noted that runners, stolons or prostrate stems of many plants became more erect when shaded.
Some of the people around me lay prostrate on the ground, while others milled around, looking, pointing and whispering to each other.
Sometimes he was on my legs, other times he was stretched out prostrate across my torso.
To the left of the prostrate face-up male figure appears a female figure with a highly piled coiffure.
The Ballroom went instantly silent as everyone stared at my father's prostrate figure.
Some days ago, Billy had been found prostrate between the steel sleepers of the railroad.
While strolling, I caught sight of a half-naked, deformed figure lying prostrate on the pavement.
Also it is linked with asthma, tonsillitis, digestive disorders, eczema and even cataracts, breast and prostrate cancer.
Cover a berm with low-growing aromatic herbs such as basil, prostrate rosemary, sage, and lemon and lime thyme.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The sun, pale and without rays, poured down leaden heat in a strangely indecisive light, and the Chinamen were lying prostrate about the decks.
Procumbent or prostrate, lying flat on the ground from the first.
His mission was to administer the consolations of religion to any of the prostrate figures in whom there might yet linger a spark of life.
The two officers, looking at the prostrate Bacchanalian, and askance at each other, exchanged the most frightful sympathetic grins.
The soft, earnest, quiet moonbeam looks in fixedly, marking the bars of the grated windows on the prostrate, sleeping forms.
He fell down prostrate and basked in him as a Neapolitan beggar does in the sun.
Shelby smiled as she saw a prostrate lot of chickens and ducks, over which Chloe stood, with a very grave face of consideration.
Leaping over his prostrate body, I seized the cudgel and finished the monster before he could regain his feet.
There was a quick dance of their lithe grey-figured bodies over the clumsy, prostrate figure.
An unclean person is universally a slothful one, one who sits by a stove, whom the sun shines on prostrate, who reposes without being fatigued.
The royal salute of British journalism thundered the announcement of Tinkler's staleness before a people prostrate on the national betting book.
It lay there prostrate, handless, without its head, pathetic, like the mangled victim of a crime.
But probably I was so ridiculous as I challenged him and it was so out of keeping with my appearance that everyone including Ferfitchkin was prostrate with laughter.
We rushed forward in terror, and as we drew near we saw the brawny warrior making dig after dig at the prostrate Good, who at each prod jerked all his limbs into the air.
He would be climbing over the prostrate stems of primitive forest trees.
Two of the brothers led Pierre up to the altar, placed his feet at right angles, and bade him lie down, saying that he must prostrate himself at the Gates of the Temple.
The railings about the plats were prostrate, decayed, or altogether gone.
It stood upright upon the figure of a prostrate and headless giant.
An inner cloud of dust rose around the prostrate figures amid the general one of the room, in which a twitching entanglement of arms and legs was discernible.
Benjamin received a severe contusion from the recoil of his gun, which produced a short stupor, during which period the ex-steward was prostrate on the ground.
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