Example sentences for: prostrate

How can you use “prostrate” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • "With a wobbly America, a prostrate capitalist Asia, and two thirds of mankind facing the risk of retreat into poverty, there has never been so much need of a European model as today," it said.

  • The original plan called for Nader to enter on his knees, fall prostrate, and apologize profusely for impugning the company's motives.

  • 2200 b.c. ). The two major relics are a monumental statue of Ramses II lying prostrate after losing its feet, and an alabaster sphinx dating from 1400 b.c.

  • Also keep an eye out for pilgrims who prostrate themselves repeatedly as they circle the stupa.

  • My theory is that the “r” got put in there simply because muskrat is a more common word than muscat . It is the same reason most of us, I assume, have heard, “He's in the hospital with prostrate trouble.”


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