had prostrated
- past perfect of prostrate.
Example Sentences
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Perhaps most foreign to the acceptable salons in New York and Paris for which he had prostrated himself are his brilliant, buoyant watercolors of the Canadian Rockies and the Maine seacoast.
From Time Magazine Archive
Later on, Úrsula had put candles on it and had prostrated herself before it, not suspecting that instead of a saint she was adoring almost four hundred pounds of gold.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
One of the brothers, Daniel, lay stricken with a fever that had prostrated him two days before, and was in an almost helpless condition.
From The Nation's Peril Twelve Years' Experience in the South by Anonymous
Moreover, he was beginning to suffer from attacks of somnolency, akin to the attacks which had prostrated him at Templeogue.
From Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II by Downey, Edmund
Did the manner in which the shock had prostrated her—had literally felled her to the floor—open his eyes to the depth of their attachment, and at the same time touch his heart with pity?
From The Paternoster Ruby by Walk, Charles Edmonds
