kneel before
Verb
Meaning
kneel before (third-person singular simple present kneels before, present participle kneeling before, simple past and past participle knelt before)
(transitive) to kneel in front of someone or something, especially in order to worship or supplicate
Examples
Global warming is not a conqueror to kneel before - but a challenge to rise to. A challenge we must rise to.
I refuse to kneel before the sights you choose to see.
I would be a drudge now, among the tents, and I would kneel before the warriors, and run from them when they shouted at me. I would be a woman, as women were reckoned in this place, a half-souled, witless animal, created to bear and pleasure men: an afterthought of the god.
Stand before your god, bow before your king, kneel before your man.
Dismount and kneel before me, that I may strike off your head with fullest ease. You shall die in this tragic golden light of sunset.
Go with the powerful and people will kneel before you.