prostrate
verb (used with object)
to cast (oneself ) face down on the ground in humility, submission, or adoration.
had prostrated
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past perfectof prostrate.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
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
The people, still gossiping cheerfully, had prostrated themselves before it.
From Carmen Ariza by Charles Francis Stocking
Her lover's flight and shame had prostrated her for weeks.
From The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies by Israel Zangwill
Now these cities suddenly found themselves in the presence of a power of which they had hardly heard the name, and which had prostrated with a mighty blow the kingdom of Crœsus.
From The History of Antiquity Vol. VI. (vol. VI. of VI.) by Max Duncker
