How to Use prostrate in a Sentence

prostrate

1 of 2 adjective

• They were prostrate from the heat.
• She was lying prostrate on the bed.
• The police found the body in a prostrate position.
• The doctor leaves his dead son and prostrate wife to go with the excited young man.
  — Kurt Vonnegut, The New Yorker, 23 Nov. 2020
• She was found prostrate on her bed by her mother, who had come by the apartment to take her to a court appearance.
  — Lisa W. Foderaro, New York Times, 19 June 2017
• More videos emerged of prostrate victims, exhausted nurses and lines of coffins.
  — New York Times, 26 Mar. 2020
• It was inspired by Slive’s fight with prostrate cancer and works to fund research and promote awareness.
  — Giana Han, al, 27 Sep. 2019
• Some lay prostrate, guiding themselves over foam rollers, while others had their legs wrapped in compression bands or bulky massage boots.
  — Lindsay Crouse, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2017
• Masked officers carried away prostrate protesters and hurled them into police vans.
  — The Economist, 15 June 2019
• The two other sub-plants have not yet gone into the swoon of death (stems doubled over under the weight of heavy leaves lying prostrate on the ground) and will likely be just fine.
  — Bonnie Blodgett, Twin Cities, 3 June 2017
• As a prostrate Johnson held his head in both hands in disbelief, Spurs coach Gregg Popovich chose to hold his head high.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 31 Mar. 2022
• Masked security forces carried away prostrate protesters and hurled them into police vans.
  — The Economist, 10 June 2019
• The technique is deft and the maneuver swift as the instructor first levers his pupil onto one side, then pivots to leave him prostrate and immobilized on the dark blue mat.
  — Stephen Castle, New York Times, 22 Nov. 2020
• Ere this dust cleared away, photographers, motion picture men and souvenir hunters had scrambled over the ruins of the prostrate tower like ants teeming about a disturbed hill.
  — sandiegouniontribune.com, 19 Mar. 2018
• Scores of fellow believers were prostrate in the middle of the avenue, praying before the start of the city’s Muslim Day parade.
  — Sarah Maslin Nir, New York Times, 24 Sep. 2017
• Lawrence Rines, after a quick manège of low jetés, stepped through his seven prostrate comrades like an NFL running back doing the tire drill.
  — Jeffrey Gantz, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Mar. 2018
• Terrence sat down on the pavement where someone had painted the white silhouette of a prostrate body, its hands manacled behind its back and angelic wings spreading from its shoulders.
  — Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 15 June 2020
• The lead androgynous figure pulls a cart with a prostrate form (one of two in the piece, which provide much of the work’s tension) atop that could be either victim or royalty, depending on the viewer’s frame of mind.
  — Lillian Dondero, ELLE Decor, 14 June 2019
• Thomas Hayer, a twenty-two-year-old member of the Newark Mosque, fired insurance rounds at the prostrate Malcolm, hitting him in his left ankle.
  — Les Payne, The New Yorker, 27 Aug. 2020
• In England, youth soccer players of all backgrounds can be found commemorating their goals as Salah does, raising their hands skyward and kneeling prostrate in sujud on the field.
  — Grant Wahl, SI.com, 29 May 2018
• The corpse of Hamlet’s father (Coster, nimbly swapping parts before our eyes) lies prostrate on a table strewn with ghastly funeral flowers, a tourniquet dangling from his arm.
  — Charles McNulty, latimes.com, 19 Aug. 2017
• The understory is planted in white roses, prostrate rosemary, succulent blue chalksticks (Senecio mandraliscae), day lilies and many other beautiful, not too thirsty, plants.
  — Nan Sterman, sandiegouniontribune.com, 3 Aug. 2017
• The question is never just a question; the subject is helpless to her storytelling, a rigorous empathy that was like refuge to the Duke and Duchess, who have long been prostrate to the narratives of the tabloids.
  — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2021
• Environmentalists have long pushed for prostrate milkweed protection under the Endangered Species Act.
  — Li Cohen, CBS News, 15 Feb. 2022
• Take that iconic photograph of Muhammad Ali standing triumphantly over the prostrate, semiconscious wreckage of Sonny Liston.
  — Alaska Dispatch News, 28 June 2017
• Complaining of regulation run riot in the past, his most enthusiastic supporters celebrate the smallest changes as heroic efforts to restore freedom to a nation that lies prostrate and humiliated before all-powerful bureaucrats.
  — Cass Sunstein, Twin Cities, 18 Oct. 2019

prostrate

2 of 2 verb

• Keep your arms out while prostrating your upper body toward the floor.
  — Malia Wollan, New York Times, 9 May 2018
• Many of the visitors prostrated themselves at her feet and then took selfies.
  — Niha Masih, Washington Post, 13 June 2019
• Her mother stopped to help and a white crowd attacked, leaving the mother prostrate with a gaping hole in her head.
  — Allison Keyes, Smithsonian, 30 June 2017
• Some of the nuns prostrate themselves while praying before the Eucharist.
  — Lawrence Wright, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
• Others came to venerate the teacher, prostrating at his feet.
  — Eliza Griswold, The New Yorker, 23 July 2019
• The nuns prostrated themselves in prayer, and Father Miguel doused us all in holy water.
  — Lawrence Wright, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
• First each member, in turn, would prostrate himself while the others, marching in a circle, stepped over him and struck him with their scourges.
  — Michael Robbins, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
• His prostrating himself in front of Vladimir Putin is now oily and explainable.
  — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 11 Jan. 2026
• One protester crawled part of the route prostrated on her hands and knees, dragging bricks and empty soda cans behind her.
  — NBC News, 8 Dec. 2019
• But my resolution wasn’t a self-righteous, self-prostrating chore.
  — Max De Haldevang, Quartz, 27 Dec. 2019
• After a moment, the model slips from the chair onto her knees, and then her hands, prostrating herself as if overcome.
  — Nathan Heller, Vogue, 29 Aug. 2023
• And throughout this service congregants and clergy alike prostrated dozens of times.
  — ABC News, 13 Apr. 2026
• In one of the most striking bag drawings, a weary African rhino is stretched and prostrated by its burden of western loans.
  — Jack Denton, Vulture, 11 Oct. 2024
• Local officials across hard-knock America prostrate themselves for a chance to host it.
  — Vauhini Vara, The Atlantic, 12 Feb. 2021
• The alacrity with which Hong Kong's private firms sought to prostrate themselves before the state drew scorn in the global business press.
  — Fortune, 24 Aug. 2019
• Naird’s situation is of a man with ramrod-straight posture prostrated and disarrayed at many odd angles.
  — Troy Patterson, The New Yorker, 28 May 2020
• Customers had to trudge to a mattress store and awkwardly prostrate themselves on numerous surfaces before choosing one to use for a decade.
  — Farhad Manjoo, New York Times, 27 July 2016
• Inside a mosque in the college town of Eugene, a half-dozen men prostrated themselves on a carpet while another man led the midday prayers.
  — Washington Post, 9 June 2017
• The Establishment, on the other hand, is terrified of any schism, and willing to prostrate itself in the service of unity.
  — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 28 Sep. 2017
• Cities and states, for one, seem eager to prostrate themselves and blame themselves for not offering up the greatest financial sacrifice of public money.
  — Patrick Sisson, Curbed, 14 Nov. 2018
• The monks, all old men, prostrate themselves in unison with the congregation, while a band of musicians makes a whining cacophony with their zithers in the background.
  — Hanya Yanagihara, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Jan. 2022
• During that service, in a sign of humble obedience, Francis prostrated himself for a few minutes on the basilica floor.
  — NBC News, 11 Apr. 2020
• His father merely wanted Mugur to prostrate himself with repentance and patriotic vows.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2021
• Perry, having prostrated himself before the Senate, was confirmed in March.
  — Bess Levin, The Hive, 26 July 2017
• Without a Jagjaguwar deal, the team debated continuing to prostrate themselves to labels.
  — Steven Zeitchik, Washington Post, 15 June 2019
• Nevertheless, Musk seems to go out of his way to prostrate himself before Chinese authorities.
  — Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 4 Nov. 2022
• He was even accused of saying that Christians should not prostrate themselves to the king or even to images of the Virgin Mary, but only to God.
  — Peter Brown, The New York Review of Books, 24 Sep. 2020
• Behind them lay almost unimaginable trials and privations that resulted in the deaths of three of their group, prostrated many with illness and forced each to endure long periods of hunger.
  — Larry Rohter, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Apr. 2023
• Inside is a waxwork model of Menelik sitting on his original throne; some visitors prostrate themselves in deference.
  — The Economist, 7 Nov. 2019
• Not even South Carolina’s Lindsey Graham may dream to prostrate himself so completely.
  — Kyle Whitmire, al, 15 Nov. 2019