How to use kneel in a sentence

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• The front rank kneeled to reload while the second rank fired over their heads.From the entry rank
• He was so fricking drunk, he passed out kneeling in front of the toilet.From the entry fricking
• The mother and father knelt at the cribside.From the entry cribside
• The mother and father knelt at the cradleside.From the entry cradleside
• If you expect to seal up every possible source of draftiness, you'll have to get your hands dirty — there will be some kneeling and crawling involved.From the entry get one's hands dirty
• Then you would kneel and smear a handful of pomade through my hair, comb it over.2019, Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, New York: Penguin. From the entry smear
• She got up, pulled the prayer rug out from under her bed, and knelt down on it.2017, Kamila Shamsie, Home Fire, Bloomsbury (2018), page 43. From the entry prayer rug
• A family member will usually be kneeling nearby to burn joss sticks and paper money.2016, Kelly Jackson-Nash, CultureShock! Singapore, page [unpaginated]. From the entry paper money
• Ha, ha, ha!" In a moment he was kneeling before the safe.2016, Laura Jean Libbey, Mischievous Maid Faynie, Library of Alexandria, →ISBN. From the entry gay
• Kneeling on snow, I'm bent over my snowgo, shivering and greasy.2015, Seth Kantner, Swallowed by the Great Land: And Other Dispatches From Alaska's Frontier, →ISBN. From the entry snowgo
• Uriah saw it, too, and he knelt to examine the track.2014, Gary D. Svee, Spirit Wolf. From the entry skiff
• I knock it every time we kneel for prayers, it dunnarf hurt.2013, Phillipa Bowers, The Secrets Of The Cave, published 2013, page 41. From the entry dunnarf
• Holding out a tray with betel leaves and areca nut, they knelt before the strapping young boys.2011, Arupa Patangia Kalita, translated by Deepika Phukan, The Story of Felanee. From the entry areca nut
• Douglas got up from the couch, shucked down his pants, and then knelt down beside my mother.2009, Arlene Gorey, My Spanking Diary. From the entry bubby
• Behind Prasanga, nine hundred Kiroho enclavers kneeled respectfully, heads raised as they watched his every move.2007, Kaye Linden, The Wisdom Keepers, […], page 12. From the entry enclaver
• Ryan knelt up in bed with his knees against Kick's side.2005, Jack Fritscher, Some Dance to Remember: A Memoir-novel of San Francisco, 1970-1982, page 340. From the entry popper
• He knelt beside Crusher and watched, briefly useless, as she passed her medscanner over the body.1997, Diane Duane, Intellivore, page 102. From the entry medscanner
• Can she only come when a White woman kneels before her fellating her dildo?1995, Lynne Pearce, Jackie Stacey, Romance Revisited - Volume 1995, part 2, page 186. From the entry fellate
• There's some guy, kneeling down near your crotch, working the puppet.1992, Paul Rudnick, chapter I, in I Hate Hamlet. From the entry chipmunk voice
• And after the service kneels to a slave who stands over him obviously and unthrowably his master.1973, Peter Shaffer, “Act II, Scene 25”, in Equus, page 79. From the entry unthrowable
• At the altar she was kneeling With her arms acrosswise folded.1969, Paul Carus, History of the Devil and the Idea of Evil from the Earliest Times to the Present Day. From the entry acrosswise
• Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter VIII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, pages…. From the entry say
• How she had crumpled her skirt, kneeling in that idiotic way.1918, Katherine Mansfield, "Prelude" in Selected Stories, Oxford World's Classics paperback, 2002, p. 120. From the entry botheration
• The two holdouts are swiftly carted away by the guards, while the third, Rhaenyra’s faithful Lord Caswell (Paul Hickey), reluctantly kneels.2022 October 16, Jenna Scherer, “An enticing House Of The Dragon crowns Westeros' new ruler”, in AV Club, archived from the original on 20…. From the entry holdout
• I suspiciously open one eye and there's Edson, kneeling next to me and flashing a smile as white as his sunga.2021, Aliénor Salmon, Finding Rhythm: An International Dance Journey. From the entry sunga
• I begged, prayed, would have kneeled to him: But all was in vain: The tyger-hearted man, as Mr.2014, Samuel Richardson, Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Richardson (Illustrated). From the entry foredoor
• If a plane was heard overhead, every man would kneel.2013, Stuart Slade, The High Frontier, →ISBN, page 77. From the entry Mitsubishi
• Wrapping the other end of my hobble-rope once on the saddle horn, I retrieved Alice's spurs and knelt down.2003, Brian D Kelling, Two Guns For Paradise. From the entry hobble-rope
• U Warthawa knelt down in the temple of the monastery to worship before the image of the Buddha.1997, Ian Stevenson, Where Reincarnation and Biology Intersect, page 133. From the entry Ven.
• The hall rang with the hosannas of the faithful, while the women knelt at his feet to ask for salvation.1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela, London: Abacus, published 2010, page 23. From the entry hosanna
• "with his hand under his jaw, kneeling on the counter." Fellehy also saw "a large crowd of people" near the store.1989, Paula Mitchell Marks, And Die in the West: The Story of the O.K. Corral Gunfight, page 209. From the entry gunshop
• Whereupon, willing to use that occasion, he kneeled down, and, with humble-heartedness and hearty earnestness printed in his graces.1983, Sir Philip Sidney, Robert Kimbrough, Sir Philip Sidney: Selected Prose and Poetry, →ISBN, page 384. From the entry humble-heartedness
• Children in every house-hold kneel and kowtow before their parents." In Soochow of Kiangsu Province, people burned incense at daybreak.1982 December 26, Charlotte Summer, “Tung Chih festival a time for rejoicing”, in Free China Weekly, volume XXIII, number 51, Taipei, page 2. From the entry Kiangsu
• She was kneeling beneath a low-crowned blossoming Juneberry.1975, Larry Woiwode, Beyond the Bedroom Wall, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, page 77. From the entry juneberry
• The kneeling acolyte chimed a sacring-bell, and the congregation bent and swayed like a wheat-field swept scross by sudden wind.1965, Attila Zohar, Kings Cross Black Magic, Sydney: Horwitz Publications, page 27. From the entry acolyte
• Finish in kneel on right, left leg pointed front; sit back on right heel, frontbend—arms downward to low rear.1965, Gymnastics Guide (Sports library for girls and women), Division for Girls and Women's Sports, American Association for Health…. From the entry frontbend

Meaning of kneel

1. verb To rest on one's bent knees, sometimes only one; to move to such a position.
2. verb To sink down so that the entrance is level with the pavement, making it easier for passengers to enter.
3. verb To cause to kneel.

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Questions about kneel in a sentence

How do you use kneel in a sentence?

Kneel is used as a verb. For example: “She knelt the doll to fit it into the box.”

What is a short sentence with kneel?

“He knelt him down to pray.”

What does kneel mean?

Kneel means to rest on one's bent knees, sometimes only one; to move to such a position.