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 blow that had prostrated Leslie at its first announcement, struck Archibald Warburton with still heavier force.
From Dangerous Ground or, The Rival Detectives by Lawrence L. Lynch
She looked at him with questioning gaze, as though to ask how much he knew of the strain that had prostrated John Barrett, the stumpage king.
From King Spruce, A Novel by Holman Day
All sorts and conditions of men had prostrated themselves at her tiny, well-shod feet, but, capricious and headstrong, she would have none of them.
From The Mask A Story of Love and Adventure by Arthur Hornblow
