prostrate
verb (used with object)
to cast (oneself ) face down on the ground in humility, submission, or adoration.
will prostrate
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future tenseof prostrate.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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Sometimes John Paul will prostrate himself before the altar.
From Time Magazine Archive
In vain shall we say Do not worship idols, until the true object of adoration is supplied, for the heart must and will prostrate itself at some shrine.
From The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus by G. A. Chadwick
Well-dressed men, with good heads, will prostrate themselves before the image of the Holy Virgin as many times, and as devoutly, as the beggar-woman.
From Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals by Maria Mitchell
To feel oppressed with humidity, some curse will fall on you that will prostrate and close down on your optimistical views of the future.
From Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted, or what's in a dream: a scientific and practical exposition by Gustavus Hindman Miller
And so will they do till the end of this world; they will do so even then, when all the gods themselves have disappeared, for then men will prostrate themselves before and worship some idea.
From The Grand Inquisitor by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
