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But as Argentine players lay prostrate on the pitch and Argentine fans lost their minds, they didn’t care that it wasn’t pretty.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 4, 2026

Videos shared on social media on Tuesday showed groups of Jewish Israelis singing the Israeli national anthem, some carrying the Israeli flag while others prostrate themselves in prayer at the edge of the holy site.

From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2024

Department of Health and Human Services now requires consent for breast, pelvic, prostrate and rectal exams for “educational and training purposes” performed by medical students, nurse practitioners or physician assistants.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 1, 2024

“You don’t have to prostrate yourself to the usual conformist rules,” a friend tells Jack, explaining hyperlinks but not just that.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2023

Her sobbing had let up a bit, or seemed to have, but her body was in the same wretched, prostrate, face-down position.

From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger

In her 1910 autobiography, she wrote of the Santa Ana wind that “its breath dries up the plants, gives headaches to people, and prostrates them … it uproots trees, tears off roofs, and devastates fields.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2021

I quite like this tableau, the mystic bard shuffling sadly on to a plane, foregoing his ancient principle of opposing a supertax, as his agent prostrates himself on the ground for his lost 700 grand.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 9, 2020

Fazal’s Karim smiles a lot, seems absolutely enchanted by English weather and, at their second meeting, without provocation, prostrates himself to kiss Victoria’s feet.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 25, 2017

The other prostrates himself, back bent, head lowered, with his right arm outstretched over clusters of bananas and other produce offered as homage to the allegorical queen.

From The New Yorker ● Sep. 24, 2016

Sickness prostrates; helpless sufferer, Who can stem the sorrowing tide?

From Poems With a Sketch of the Life and Experience of Annie R. Smith by Rebekah Smith

"As soon as I arrived in Port Sudan, I prostrated in the airport and cried intensely because I never imagined I would reach a safe haven," he said.

From BBC ● Apr. 14, 2026

At another point of the ceremony, the nine lay prostrated on a carpet in front of the basilica’s central altar in a sign of obedience, humility and giving of oneself.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 25, 2021

Earlier on Friday, Francis prostrated himself on the floor of an empty St. Peter’s Basilica to pray at a “Passion of the Lord” service.

From Reuters ● Apr. 2, 2021

“The French justice system has prostrated itself before a writer,” said Mehana Mouhou, a lawyer involved in the suit against the author.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 21, 2020

As I prostrated, the Mutawaf fended pilgrims off to keep me from being trampled.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey

A few months before Khan was elected prime minister, local media carried photos of the couple prostrating at the Baba Farid shrine.

From Reuters ● May 16, 2023

But we must never underestimate a strain of masochism in some people, the desire to bow down to the mighty as if they were prostrating themselves before a deity.

From Salon ● Feb. 18, 2023

But it was his act of prostrating in prayer after goals that reverberated in the wider global consciousness, even among those who don't follow football.

From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2022

The kowtow meant prostrating oneself before the emperor or a patriarch and knocking one’s head on the ground.

From New York Times ● Jun. 20, 2020

There had never before been in my emotions such an impulse to pray—and I did, prostrating myself on the living-room rug.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey