Example Sentences

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About five children are kneeling, each in their own space.

From BBC • Nov. 28, 2022

In it, the father and his 4-year-old son are kneeling next to each other.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2022

Navy who are kneeling in rows, hands on their heads, on the deck of an Iranian boat.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 28, 2016

My teammates are kneeling above me, looking worried.

From Scientific American • Mar. 19, 2014

And when we are kneeling, heads bowed slightly, I can hear from all around us a susurration, like the rustling of insects in tall dry grass: a cloud of whispers.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood