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Sentence Examples He saw the look but merely knelt and dug into his pack, pulling out what looked to be a very sharp knife. The groundskeepers dug up and presented the home plate that Boggs knelt down and kissed after circling the bases for his 3000th hit. The banks were muddy and dirtied the boy's tunic even more as he knelt to wash the sweat from his face. We were dumbfounded at this rudeness and I got up and knelt on the clay floor. As Chrissy unpacked her bag, Ian knelt on the pillows and looked down at the dizzy drop to the rocks below. Amanda's mother gasped, slapping her hand to her mouth, and quickly knelt down beside her. Ben knelt a bit unsteadily, letting the loose dirt sift through his fingers. The big woman knelt down and gathered up Rose's books, muttering apologies in a deep, quiet voice. Cathy knelt in front of the bookcases, pulling things from the bottom shelves. It knelt in the centre of its pen with three woolly, unshorn friends, contentedly chewing the cud. He sat up, and she knelt beside him on the bed, laughing and trying to help unbuckle and unstrap his uniform. He knelt calmly with his hands upturned and a look of concentration on his face. I knelt down for a close look at one buckbrush plant and noticed about five ticks on one stem. She hurried over to Max, and knelt beside him, checking his pulse and other vital signs for life. Scott knelt in front of her, squeezing in beside David, and reaching for her free hand. I knelt down by Phyllis, took out my stethoscope to establish my medical credentials, and listened knowingly to her chest. Folding his coat beneath him, he knelt down and sat back on his haunches at the foot of the grave, facing the headstone. John knelt and checked for a pulse, he heaved a sigh of relief when he found one, Jim wouldn't die just yet. Bryan stepped in, bowed subserviently to Jason and left the tray he held on the small circular table I knelt next to. His voice was cheerful and he knelt down so that he was kind of near her eye level. Show More Sentences As I knelt on the sun-dried ground, my hands clenched in fists, I knew my cause was hopeless. He'd already knelt down next to Jake, rolled his pyjama trousers up and put an ice pack over his knee. She watched with mild surprise as the prince knelt next to the chest and lifted the lid. Rilla knelt down behind Naila and swept the short brown hair out of the way. A pair of figures knelt behind the parapet of the balcony overlooking the ballroom. She knelt down before her brother, and hugged him tightly kissing his head. I crawled away and knelt on the deck, trying to slow my breathing before I hyperventilated. She had opened her eyes fully grown and spreading her ice blue wings she knelt at the feet of Staris who had created her. I was kind of gawking at her while she knelt in the dirt next to me in her impeccable khakis and penny loafers. We crept close to a house, knelt into monkey grass or button weed or periwinkle, and looked through the lighted windows. Casually and almost unwillingly she knelt down beside Nitrus and Psyd, holding her hands above the insentient body. You knelt at the grate, laying sticks and firelighters and scrunched-up newspaper. Then, he knelt down and very quickly plunged the knife into it, and edged it around to make a large slit. He wept where he knelt, against the wall outside the throne room, the room he and Fallen had been coroneted in a thousand years earlier. The heroine knelt in front of a hole that was soon to be her grave, refusing to confess to her proposed counter-revolutionary crimes. As we talked by the light of a flickering hurricane lamp, some soldiers knelt on a prayer mat nearby. Regina genuflected before the tabernacle and then knelt down on one of the pews, made the Sign of the Cross and began to pray silently. After making the sign of the cross and genuflecting before the tabernacle, she knelt down and put her hands together in prayer. He paced the floor, looking down on her as she knelt at his feet and breathed slowly and deeply. As I walked through Ethan O'Brien's back door, I knelt down to pet his golden retriever, Homer, who was going out to the backyard. Show More Sentences Cassandra nodded and knelt by his side, gently turning his head and placing her hand at the pulse point on his neck. He knelt, his knees cracking so loudly that a quiet echo bounced about the arena. Nadezhda knelt to adjust the tuning dial again, but lost the transmission completely. He took off his shirt, by now grimed with sweat and dust, and laid it out in front of where he knelt. I had soon fetched a cool basin of water and knelt by his bed, carefully wiping him down with a washcloth. She knelt down next to me, dried my eyes and gave me a warm, loving hug that made everything all right. Being careful about the boat's balance, she stepped into the white base of the small craft and knelt in the slightly indented hold. He knelt down and pulled a handful of kibble out of his pocket, which he held out for Ginger. It was mid-afternoon when Arun knelt beside the fledgling, a faint hope kindling. Carl wheeled the bike closer to the house and knelt down and began to check it over for signs of obvious damage. He knelt beside the young woman's shivering body and wrapped her in his coat until an ambulance arrived. The couple knelt in a crouched position with their hands joined over a bowl of holy water. He put a hand over his mouth and slowly knelt down beside his friend's lifeless body. Master Mo went to Xianhua Hill in pray for good rain, he knelt and kowtowed every step he advanced forward. She knelt down so she was level with Allison's face and glared wrathfully into Allison's eyes. He straightened, and I knelt down and placed his foot in the shoe and laced it up, and did the same to the other. I hopped the railing and stood on the path, and she had knelt down to adjust the toddler's helmet about 80m ahead of me. Once upon a time, my ancestresses knelt in great forests alone or with sisters of their kind. Drea knelt by the fire and began to empty the contents of the satchel into a pot of leftover water, allowing it to boil. The flames licked his face as he covered his face with his forearms and knelt to absorb the shock. Show More Sentences Instead he knelt beside the bed, watching her eyes dart beneath their lids. Tony knelt down and prayed making the sign of the cross, while Jisty's parents said their own prayers. She found an empty place in a pew in the back of the church and after she genuflected, knelt and began her rosary. Sighing softly, the Pack leader knelt down as well and gently placed his hand under Dante's chin to lift his head, their gazes locking. She walked round to the other side of the bucket and, grinning, knelt down opposite. Now Jake knelt over her, shaking her body in an attempt to roust her, just as Jamie had tried to do with Carl. He knelt down beside one of the bodies to take a closer look, and looked back up with a furrowed brow. Rodgers knelt on the rubbled limestone road, wincing as his knees were stabbed by the white gravel. Ward knelt and flicked the latches on his guitar case with two satisfying clicks. He slowly knelt down and scooped out a small hole and placed his hand in it. She stopped walking, turned to him, and with one swift movement knelt down and scooped him up in her comforting arms. As Mari rose slightly to fire overhead he knelt back down and began to reload again, noting his depleted bandolier. Laurie put the small box down on a flat rock and teasingly batted Gil's hand away as he knelt down and tried to reach inside for a sandwich. And when she knelt down to tell her beads that night, a very strange and terrible prayer lingered on her lips the last and most earnestly of all. The high-set teak timbered house was filled to capacity as the 200 guests trooped upstairs, sat and knelt on the floor. Iron and flint I had in my brass tinderbox, and I knelt down by the rocky ledge and began to gather bits of bark. He knelt down with his palms together and touched the feet of the statue with his forehead. The heavily made-up young woman knelt before prison administrators, giving them free shoeshines. Liberty knelt down in the mud, not caring if her jeans got all muddy. Walking with measured steps she knelt down at the corner of the cave. Show More Sentences So when I tried them on, the cutest little Latino boy came and knelt in front of me and sort pinched and plucked at me, showing me where he'd take them in to fit me better. The recital of her crime too was read out as she knelt, and then the executioner stepped forward with a wooden stave and dealt a hundred blows upon her shoulder. She looked even more uncertain when we all knelt down around the mattress. Before we got ready to sleep the three of us knelt together for prayers. My house keys fell out of my purse and I knelt to pick them up. Harry also knelt on one knee and layed poppies at the grave of the unknown soldier as the last post was played. He knelt beside glover just as he once had by that injured boy back in Brooklyn. On first seeing her, he had knelt down on the sidewalk and kissed her hand to thank her for her hams. She then knelt down on the large tarpaulin protecting the floor and began to put the caps back on the dozens of watercolours she had carelessly left open. She ducked behind a bush, and knelt, weary of walking on her lame foot. One of her favorite memories at a red carpet was meeting Jodie Foster, who knelt down to speak at her level. Rich men with tailored suits knelt by poor men in tattered clothes. He knelt down to begin frantically scooping them back into the box as she slid the apartment key into her pocket, undid the deadbolt and stepped out into the hall. Her tender face bent in compassion over a marble form so exquisitely pure that I knelt and signed myself. Her voice was musical and gentle as she sang childish rhymes of the frightful Finn Mac Coul so that the young ones knelt attentively and obediently along side her. Brad knelt down beside Vincent, looking carefully at the shoulder nearest him, then looking at the back of that shoulder, where the exit wound was. He knelt at front of me and unstrapped my incredibly strappy sandals. He knelt down near the riverbed and put water over his face. The side chapels were deserted, save for an elderly aristo woman who knelt on an embroidered hassock, chanting her rosary as she strung the beads along the string. One policeman knelt by the impotent aggressor and talked to him quietly. Show More Sentences The baron stood afar off, or knelt in submissive, acknowledged, infelt inferiority. Alone he knelt in the presence of his God till the absolution has been spoken, and the sacred elements received. The front of the elbows were padded to protect his knees as, presumably, he knelt over his victims' corpses. After many angry protests, Conrad finally knelt before his son and pleaded for his desired consent, which was finally given. The Ven. U Warthawa knelt down in the temple of the monastery to worship before the image of the Buddha. In the Trinity Term of 1929 I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed. Holding out a tray with betel leaves and areca nut, they knelt before the strapping young boys. When he got off the plane he knelt down and kissed the ground. He knelt beside Crusher and watched, briefly useless, as she passed her medscanner over the body. Except that it wasn't a body. The hall rang with the hosannas of the faithful, while the women knelt at his feet to ask for salvation. Train driver Graham Blackett said he spotted Mr Poole at the side of the track, but thought he was a train spotter until he knelt down in front of the train and waved. In sunshine as vivid as revelation, Linden Avery knelt on the stone of a low-walled coign like a balcony high in the outward face of Revelstone's watchtower. Beatty recorded that Hardy knelt and kissed Nelson on the cheek. According to legend, Aidan saw the black smoke from his cell at Lindisfarne Abbey, immediately recognized its cause, and knelt in prayer for the fate of the city. Earlier that year, he knelt on stage at The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert and recited the Lord's Prayer before a television audience of up to one billion people. As Bruce's army drew nearer, they paused and knelt in prayer. Silent, with heads uncovered, the travelers, nearer approaching, Knelt on the swarded floor, and joined in the evening devotions. Examples from Classical Literature And therewith he knelt before the Knight and put his hands between his hands, and swore by Allhallows to be true to him. They all knelt save the vicar, who had placed the oil in an ampulla upon a table. The signal was then given to us, and we all knelt to receive the benediction of Monseigneur. The Black Friar knelt beside the dying one, and drawing an ivory crucifix from his habit held it to Mendoza's face. Linda rushed to the boulder and knelt again, but she could get no response to her questions. Now Gudruda could bear his words no longer, bur ran to him and knelt beside him. Julia sat on the camp bed and, as he had promised himself, he knelt beside her and buried his face in her lap. She then returned to the mouth of the cave, and knelt down at Richard Digby's feet. He climbed over the railings, knelt down on the sodden grass, and gazed at the Christmas rose. Cole appeared at the plate and Chub retreated to the coacher's box and knelt on the ground. She had pled with him before, and knelt and wept and abased herself before him. Taking out his knife, currier knelt and soon had the brick out of its hole. It was on those very boards that Ruskin knelt to examine the Cypriot antiquities of Cesnola. In a moment the Salvationist knelt upon the stones, and kissed the battered face of the poor wanderer. He went to his bachelor rooms, knelt down, and prayed to be made like a Salvationist. They knelt down, each in turn, before the sarcophagus, and put their lips to it. And she knelt down with ewer and basin and a napkin to wash the feet of the poor. He knelt, but touched not the floweret, instead caught at the long folds of her silver gown and held her where she stood. Into the little parlor filed the nurses, and knelt, folding their tired hands. The young Greek knelt at the old man's feet, then rose and kissed his hand, and followed in silence the fossor Hilarus. Show More Sentences The Angel knelt beside his flower bed and recklessly tore up by the roots a big bunch of foxfire. It looked as if he would cross close in front of me, so I pulled foxie to a standstill, jumped off and knelt with my rifle ready. I knelt, up there on the hayrick, and let my thanks go with his to heaven's gate. The sky pilot knelt by the Scotchman's side, and when the dying man saw the visitor a smile came upon his face. There was only one figure in it, that of a man who knelt near the high altar. He knelt with it, pressing a part of it to the hot metal of the satellite's hull. He knelt for some time longer, watching the fish, before he resigned the hydroscope to me. Monson knelt at his post forward, and his hands trembled on the spoked wheel that moved the wings. The Empress, her head bowed in silence, knelt before the weird impressive shrine, side by side with the starets. He knelt, compassion gentling his heart, and put one hand to the insentient face. There, in front of the ironbound box, knelt Pomponio, busily at work on the stout padlock that guarded the treasures within. That evening when they parted he knelt at her feet and kissed the hem of her kirtle. For some minutes he knelt motionless, as if in prayer, though no sound escaped him. Pelisson bowed to the ground, and La Fontaine knelt as people do in churches. Joe Baker knelt down in front of the Mahala, and opened the roll of blankets. She knelt on the cold radiator and watched him out of sight, and then got trembly all over and fell to snivelling. Sergius knelt, received the trembling hands on his bowed head, and kissed them with undissembled veneration. She had sunk upon her knees, and so knelt down, moving her lips, but uttering no sound. Nen the wise men jumped off their camels and knelt down and opened all their boxes of pretty things for Him to play with. They knelt together, and Hyacinth, numbly indifferent, felt his hand grasped and held. Show More Sentences He could not believe all of them the offsprings of this destitute pair, and he voiced his idea as he knelt by the pallet. Gordon and wheeler, the pulp-mill manager, knelt in the middle of the boat. Tremulous and half dead, I prised myself over the edge with my hands, and knelt once more on the hill beside Elsie. Marie stopped the sleigh at a wayside shrine, and getting out knelt to say a prayer for the travelers who had died on the rax. We are in,' said the man, as he drove into the rearguard and the camel knelt. Ransom, shambling behind them, crept in and knelt at the foot of the bed. When Denis and Susan had reached the hawthorn, they both knelt down. The duke approached the altar, knelt as a priest might have done before a crucifix, and opened the casket. Helene trembled, Gaston took her back to her prie-dieu, where she knelt. To her Mr. tringle had knelt before he had taken the elder sister. He ran to the foredeck and knelt on one knee, arrow nocked and ready. And with him all knelt a long while, each repeating his mea culpa. Some of the Taliban sat crosslegged and others knelt while some chose to pull up a knee to their chest for comfort. She knelt to grope for it, and, having found it, she shut the box. He caught the fancy of the king, knelt down a grub, and rose a butterfly. She stole up quietly and knelt on the hassock beside his chair. When he had come to where the prior sat, he knelt upon one knee. He knelt and reverentially bowed his forehead to the pavement. She knelt upon a cushion and prayed, with her head buried between her palpitating arms. She knelt for hours on sturdy legs in front of the host in the golden, sun-like monstrance. Show More Sentences At noon the weary cat knelt beside a lake and lapped thirstily at the clear water. The false pucelle then knelt, confessed her sin, and cried for mercy. She knelt again by the boy and kissed his cold lips, smiling so stilly. By the door of her son's room the mother knelt upon the floor and listened for some sound from within. Of the infrequent visitors who came thither, none knelt or prayed. Before him, on her knees in the blood spattered rushes of the floor, knelt Eleanor, Queen of England, alternately chafing and kissing his hands. Every passer-by went into the yard, knelt by the side of the dead, said a Pater noster, and sprinkled a few drops of holy water on the bier. She knelt, and prayed God to let her make Barstow happy forever and ever. I knelt down and tried to decipher the blazon in the moonlight. Izanagi knelt on the ground, bitterly weeping and lamenting. And Vinnie knelt down beside the girl who was holding bubby in her arms. Unorna knelt down and let her hand rest a few seconds on Kafka's brow. Nevertheless, I knelt to feel the punky stuff under my feet. Roma had knelt again, and was fingering the skirt of the Pope's cassock. With inimitable grace she knelt down on one side of the catafalque. For, though day after day, at morn or evensong, I have knelt in God's house, I have never repented of my sin. So Arthur took her hand and knelt beside her, and she looked her best, with all the soft lines matching the angelic beauty of her eyes. He twined himself up to her, as she half knelt by the settle, and converted her shoulder into a support. He knelt there motionless, a cocked pistol clenched in his right hand. All through the night we knelt and prayed, Mad mourners of a corse! Show More Sentences Then Linda knelt down, and hid her face upon the counterpane. Inaudible the creaking joints of her stiffened knees, as she knelt down by the bedside. Shimerda rose, crossed himself, and quietly knelt down before the tree, his head sunk forward. Tom knelt before him, with clasped hands, and with an absorbed expression of love, trust, adoration, on his quiet face. He went back to his wife and knelt down on her tapestried cushion. The local preacher knelt on the platform, and offered up a prayer. He knelt behind the dead horse, facing the advancing Spaniards. Smilash knelt before the camp-stool, and was presently busy unbuckling and unscrewing. In the evening after supper I knelt by the table where the money lay and prayed for hours. I knelt on the deck and listened to the thrum of the diesel engines. She knelt down upon the platform where they were standing and lifted her clasped hands to the sky. Suddenly, while he knelt there, he was smitten as by an electric shock. Enoch knelt beside him, and put his hand over the patient's heart. He knelt down and began to unlace her shoes, while Hilda shrank into the chair. The fellahin knelt when they saw him, yet could not say why. Netta knelt, and the garland was thrown over her flaxen curls. She walked in firm and erect, and knelt down at a prie Dieu in the aisle. Even the servants, as they knelt down to present the dishes, might be seen to grin and sneer, while the guests were helping themselves to the offered dainties. Mordaunt knelt down and fastened one end of the train to the spigot, in order that he might have nothing to do but to set it on fire at the opposite end with the match. Charlotte, who was practical without ability, knelt by the side of an empty trunk, vainly endeavouring to pave it with books of varying thickness and size. Show More Sentences Then in the church, where but a few hours before the fallen Emperor had knelt and prayed to Christ, the Sultan bowed himself in thanks and praise to Allah and Mohammed. There, on either side of her, knelt the two Bouncers, devouring the jewel with their eyes, and screaming with ecstasy every time it flashed on them in a new light. Adam shuddered at the thought of his own strength, as with the oncoming of this dread he knelt down by Arthur's side and lifted his head from among the fern. Urbain knelt down by the bed and said softly, 'Mon pere, mon pere. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of knelt? Words that rhyme with knelt What is the adverb for knelt? What is the adjective for knelt? What is the noun for knelt? Translations for knelt Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words knelling Kneller Knell knell knees-up knee-slapping Knesset knew knew no bounds knew quite well knick knicker 5-letter Words Starting With k kn kne knel