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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of kneel.

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Examples

  • John Obadiah Franklin kneels beneith a cross near the corner of Calder Avenue and MLK Parkway in Beaumont on Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2007.

    Preacher in red 2007

  • John Obadiah Franklin kneels beneith a cross near the corner of Calder Avenue and MLK Parkway.

    Preacher in red 2007

  • A cute, possibly Scandinavian blonde in her early twenties kneels next to a white leather beanbag chair.

    Monkeytown excerpt 5 Chris Vola 2011

  • When arrived at the chapel, ten candles are lighted, the Pope kneels and prayers before the holy Sacrament.

    More Rare Images: Good Friday with Pius XI in the Sistine Chapel 2009

  • He gets up and kneels behind her, grins at me, takes off her panties.

    Monkeytown excerpt 5 Chris Vola 2011

  • He walks to the graves of his beloved and second-born child and painfully kneels down on his knees between them and rests his back against his own headstone.

    Tick Tock Erin Zulkoski 2011

  • All rise; the Pontiff resumes his mitre, the Celebrant kneeling says, after purifying the chalice, "quod ore sumpsimus Domine para mente capiamus, et de munere temporali fiat nobis remedium sempiternum", then kneels to the Cross and returns to the vestry.

    More Rare Images: Good Friday with Pius XI in the Sistine Chapel 2009

  • Fourteen-year-old runaway Mary Ann Vecchio screams as she kneels over the body of Jeffrey Miller, one of four Kent State University students fatally shot by Ohio National Guardsmen during antiwar protests on May 4, 1970.

    The Kent State Massacre: 5 Days To Destiny | myFiveBest 2010

  • The subdeacon kneels to hold up the foot of each of the 12 men as the priest washes it, and the deacon proffers a towel with which to dry it, after which the priest kisses it.

    Compendium of the 1955 Holy Week Revisions of Pius XII: Part 3 - The Mass of Holy Thursday and the Mandatum 2009

  • Andre kneels by the winch, which should be reeling me in by now.

    Squall Susan Rukeyser 2012

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