| Probably, like Lot, he's prostrating himself, falling on his face to the earth. |
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| He spent untold hours in prayer, prostrating himself on the floor of the church at night. |
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| When Roshi came out of his room to wash, the monk was prostrating himself outside the door. |
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| They were miniature foxes and so he greeted them respectfully, prostrating himself in a most unfatherly way. |
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| Invoking and glorifying Him, praising and thanking Him and kneeling and prostrating before Him are the practical manifestations of worship. |
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| Not only the name Allah is strange to the non-Muslims but also the way Muslims worship Allah with ablution, bowing, kneeling, and prostrating. |
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| Or as the French media wrote, is it not merely kneeling, but actually prostrating before the mullahs? |
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| A small mat sufficient just for the face and the hands while prostrating during prayers. |
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| Egyptian cameramen suspend work for prayers, spreading their little rugs and prostrating themselves towards Mecca. |
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| What prevents thee from prostrating thyself to one whom I have created with My hands? |
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| Crowd was huge but I made a queue for prostrating me before Shinto icons by throwing a ¥10 coin and by clapping twice my hands, participation in the Japanese spiritual enthusiasm. |
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| We should not have to go there in thirty years time, like the Belgians in Rwanda, and say sorry, or like the Holy Father, who is prostrating himself all over the place. |
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| All of them were bent, such as prostrating in front of Joseph. |
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| Qusra's villagers celebrated their success in chasing settlers away by staging their Friday prayers in the fields, prostrating themselves on the ploughed earth. Might such rural friction trigger broader unrest? |
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| One Han teenager ran into a monastery for refuge, prostrating himself before a red-robed Tibetan abbot who agreed to give him shelter. The destruction was systematic. |
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| Britain has become the Basil Fawlty of the planet, switching at will between bullying or patronising the weak, and prostrating herself before the rich and powerful. |
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| Last weekend saw the usual hordes of self-tan-slathered, miniskirted, bare-legged Londoners prostrating themselves on the shingle, stacks of Budweiser acting as a buffer against the breeze. |
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| It ended with a prayer during which the brothers who have made their life commitment recalled their commitment by prostrating themselves on the ground to express the offering of their lives. |
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| As he was kneeling and prostrating himself, the performance artist realized that such an extreme gesture of humility was utterly unheard of in the Western world. |
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| It is felt in the mutual takbir and through the bowing and prostrating that everyone performs to glorify Allah. |
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| During the Passion week services, chairs are removed, to facilitate worshiping according to their ancient custom, which includes prostrating a number of times. |
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| Prostrating myself on the examining table, I tried not to flinch as she zapped my scores of clogged pores. |
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