kneel

“Why are we going to kneel? Why are we going to lower our heads? Why are we going to be afraid?”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

In another instance captured on video, a U.S. citizen is splayed out on a sidewalk in El Monte as two men with vests that read “Border Patrol” kneel over him.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2025

Flood waters also rushed through subway stations in New York City on Monday evening, pouring into subway cars and forcing passengers to kneel on their seats to avoid getting wet.

From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2025

"You don’t know whether to stand . . . or kneel."

From Salon ● May 13, 2025

Even though he didn’t have to kneel, Uncle Darnell got down on one knee and held out his arms.

From "P.S. Be Eleven" by Rita Williams-Garcia

Seeing all this, a woman kneels and cries out between sobs.

From Barron's ● Jul. 4, 2026

Hawk kneels at Tim’s quilt square and gives words to the truth he’s carried in his heart for 3½ decades: “He was the man I loved.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2024

Yancey kneels in a pasture already eaten down by the cows and grabs a bunch of fescue, showing how it’s been chewed back.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 18, 2023

She kneels, and Huxley walks around her; then he kneels, and she walks around him.

From New York Times ● May 11, 2023

Mother Ermentrude comes into the room and kneels by my pallet, a gesture of humility that belies her authority.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

As they viewed the remains laid out on a white silk sheet, many pilgrims made the sign of the cross, others kneeled down.

From Barron's ● Feb. 22, 2026

South Florida's NBC6 reports the men kneeled, clapped their hands together, and waved their shirts at the passing helicopter.

From Salon ● Jun. 5, 2025

Before chairs with a back and arm rests debuted as a status symbol among ancient Egyptians about 5,000 years ago, he says that humans mostly kneeled or squatted for about 2 million years.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 7, 2025

In the potato-chip aisle, a woman kneeled on the floor, diligently unpacking boxes, filling the shelves with chips, then reversing the process and repeating it several times over.

From Slate ● Dec. 4, 2024

Razi got up and kneeled over the side.

From "The Boy Who Met a Whale" by Nizrana Farook

Thailand's foreign ministry denied Thursday that French President Emmanuel Macron knelt before the country's king during his state visit to Paris this week, after an AI-generated picture circulated online.

From Barron's ● Jul. 2, 2026

Upon leaving her house, where he knelt on the floor mutely asking for her forgiveness, he notices piles of leaves everywhere he looks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2026

Protesters, some wearing clerical stoles draped over their shoulders, knelt while singing hymns and reciting the Lord’s Prayer in frigid conditions before being handcuffed and led away, video showed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026

She knelt in front of the first officer she saw, told him she’d fled the colectivos, and pleaded for a chance to seek asylum.

From Slate ● Jan. 15, 2026

Jason knelt, letting them jump all over him while Brigit looked around and Ella went to Masterji Thakur's desk.

From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton

Aaron Farinacci, 37, was allegedly seen kneeling near grass at the site of the fire and later found to have matches and a lighter, the Spokane County Sheriff said.

From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026

A resident driving in the area where the fire started spotted a man kneeling in grass before standing up and “looking very nervous,” Nowels said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

Artisan Gianluca Galli was seen kneeling before the mosaic, working to cut new pieces of stone by hand as curious onlookers gathered around him.

From BBC ● May 29, 2026

On Wednesday, Ben Gvir sparked an outcry internationally but also within his own government by publishing a video of dozens of activists kneeling with their foreheads on the ground and their hands tied.

From Barron's ● May 22, 2026

It was thus that Nighthand found them: Christopher kneeling next to Mal, the body of their most loved companion held between them.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell