genuflects
- present tense form of genuflect (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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Mapplethorpe genuflects at the altar of that icon with a platinum portrait of Warhol, backed by a halo of light and surrounded by silk panels that form a cross.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
Without anything divine to revere, American home and landscape design largely genuflects at the altar of the market.
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2025
But “The Andromeda Evolution” genuflects appropriately to the 1969 novel that instantly infected pop culture.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 11, 2019
On arrival, Pope Francis is unlikely to follow his predecessor in kissing the tarmac at Dublin airport; at 81, he has one lung and weakness in his knees means he no longer genuflects.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 24, 2018
By the cross the priest is reminded of the death of Our Lord; he genuflects as an act of humility, and he strikes his breast to show his own unworthiness.
From Baltimore Catechism, No. 4 An Explanation of the Baltimore Catechism of Christian Doctrine by Kinkead, Thomas L.
