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How to use prostrate in a sentence

20 example sentences · adjective, verb

Prostrate means lying flat, face-down. Example: “He was prostrate from the extreme heat.”

Examples of prostrate by meaning

adjectiveLying flat, face-down.

  • Finally almost the whole world was combined against the evil-doers, who are now prostrate before us.1945, Sir Winston Churchill, VE Day speech from House of Commons

adjectivePhysically incapacitated from environmental exposure or debilitating disease.

  • He was prostrate from the extreme heat.

verbTo throw oneself down in submission.

  • With little or no dignity, they shamelessly prostrate themselves in the most craven way.2014 July 10, Stephen Glover, “Sorry, but Gandhi statue in Westminster is a cheap stunt by ministers with scant knowledge of history...

verbTo overcome or overpower.

  • Why this very minute she's prostrated with grief.1936 June 30, Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC

More sentences with prostrate

  • Surah 18:50: 'And We told the Angels "prostrate yourselves before Adam".2020, Abu-Hamdiyyah, Muhammad, The Qur'an: an introduction, Routledge, page 101. From the entry jinn
  • So they all prostrated themselves, except Iblees who was one of the jinn.2020, Abu-Hamdiyyah, Muhammad, The Qur'an: an introduction, Routledge, page 101. From the entry jinn
  • Finding Adam playing with his favorite toy truck on the floor beside her prostrate father.2008, Sandra Marton, Sarah Mayberry, Emilie Rose, Hot City Nights, Harlequin, →ISBN. From the entry pawpaw
  • Dr Jaffry was prostrated on a prayer carpet, finishing his evening namaz.1993, William Dalrymple, City of Djinns, Penguin, published 2004, page 228. From the entry namaz
  • Here we have warriors, the Cretan erect, and his darker-skinned enemy prostrate and suppliant.1907, Ronald M. Burrows, The Discoveries In Crete, page 20. From the entry suppliant
  • Flat ground at the top of Allt Creag an Leth-choin carries prostrate vegetation dominated by woolly fringe moss with some crowberry.2012, Adam Watson, Human Impacts on the Northern Cairngorms, →ISBN, page 12. From the entry woolly fringe moss
  • Piling on: Players may not pile on a runner after the ball is dead or intentionally fall upon any prostrate player.2009, Human Kinetics with Thomas Hanlon, The Sports Rules Book - 3rd Edition, Human Kinetics, →ISBN, page 116. From the entry pile on
  • Clifton was lying prostrate on the couch, a napkin round her head, and the reek of eau-de-Cologne filling the room.1927, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados Mysteries. From the entry eau de cologne
  • Whithersoever she had fared, she had seen nothing but youths fatuously prostrate to her—not one upright figure which she could respect.1911, Max Beerbohm, chapter II, in Zuleika Dobson. From the entry whithersoever
  • MOSQUE (Fr. mosquée, from Sp. mezquita, from Ar. masjid, temple, from sajada, to prostrate one's self, to pray).1905, “Mosque”, in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Company. From the entry Mohammedan
  • Lodging was determined as standability of plants in plot at maturity using a scale of 1 to 5 (1, erect plants; 5, prostrate plants).2015 July 14, “Genome Regions Associated with Functional Performance of Soybean Stem Fibers in Polypropylene Thermoplastic Composites”, in…. From the entry standability
  • The plurispores and unispores produced by the erect thalli at 10 degrees C under SD conditions once again developed into new prostrate thalli.2012, Q. Ashton Acton, PhD, Issues in Life Sciences: Botany and Plant Biology Research: 2011 Edition, ScholarlyEditions Press, page 631. From the entry unispore
  • Hence, those who approached the Šâh, covered their faces and said misûzam “I am burning up.” One prostrated oneself before the Šâh.2006, Kathryn L. Reyerson, Theofanis G. Stavrou, James D. Tracy, editors, Pre-Modern Russia and its World: Essays in Honor of Thomas S.…. From the entry šâh
  • Prostrate from opium wars and divided into spheres of European influence, China was unable to protect her citizens from Occidentals who seduced them to immigrate.1994, Jimmy M. Skaggs, “Shoveling It: Life and Labor on Guano Islands”, in The Great Guano Rush: Entrepreneurs and American Overseas…. From the entry macao
  • Over his prostrate body we ambled, the ill - tempered little beast naggling at its bit, and doing his utmost to unseat me .1922, Walter De la Mare, Memoirs of a Midget, page 377. From the entry naggle
  • Was the family prostrated by grief?1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 36. From the entry command

Meaning of prostrate

  1. adjective Lying flat, face-down.
  2. adjective Emotionally devastated.
  3. adjective Physically incapacitated from environmental exposure or debilitating disease.

Full definition of prostrate

Questions about prostrate in a sentence

How do you use prostrate in a sentence?
Prostrate is used as an adjective and verb. For example: “He was prostrate from the extreme heat.”
What is a short sentence with prostrate?
“Was the family prostrated by grief?”
What does prostrate mean?
Prostrate means lying flat, face-down.

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