Thesaurus / prostrate

prostrate

How to use prostrate in a sentence

Mules pulled ramshackle carts, children played outside mud houses, burqa-shrouded women lay prostrate and begging in the middle of dusty roads.

Prostrate she fell on the floor; but hearing a waiter say, 'Up stairs, madam, you may have a room to yourself.'

CAMILLAFANNY BURNEY

Prostrate or ascending, much branched; leaves round-obovate to rhomboidal, 3–10 long.

Prostrate beside him, Sembobitis and Menkera worshipped, their faces touching the stone.

BALTHASARANATOLE FRANCE

Prostrate under the dread of death, her innermost nature—stripped of the concealments of her later life—was revealed to view.

I SAY NOWILKIE COLLINS

Prostrate by his side lay the prince, in a state of insensibility, the blood faintly oozing from a wound in his arm.

Prostrate, wounded men were strewed over the ground, but the bear was nowhere to be seen.

Prostrate and helpless under the paw of the lion is a monkey with the face of Grady.

Prostrate in utter helplessness, she cast herself upon the Eternal Father's mercy.

THE MEASURE OF A MANAMELIA EDITH HUDDLESTON BARR

Prostrate bodies in olive drab hid the patch of tender green grass by the roadside.

THREE SOLDIERSJOHN DOS PASSOS

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985