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kneeled

Meaning

of Kneel

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Examples

I am murdering me, where I kneeled at your kiss. I am pushing knives through the hands that created two into one. Our hands do not bleed at this, they lie still in their dishonor. Anne Sexton

Was he balked by silence? He kneeled long, And saw love in a dark crown Of thorns blazing, and a winter tree Golden with fruit of a man's body. R. S. Thomas

• A mother has brought a $300,000 lawsuit against the Clackamas County Sheriff's Department after three deputies pinned her 12-year-old Black son on the ground, while one kneeled on the boy's neck. Source: Internet

A growing number of NFL players around the country are speaking out on social media about the death of George Floyd, a handcuffed black man who pleaded for air as a white Minneapolis police officer kneeled on his neck earlier this week. Source: Internet

Apparently unaware of Sabine’s presence, the man kneeled down onto the packed snow and came on all fours, then—to Sabine’s profound surprise—began to crawl slowly onto the frozen river. Source: Internet

In September 2017, a month after a white supremacist and neo-Nazi “unite the right” rally incited violence in Charlottesville, Virgina, referred to NFL players who kneeled as ‘sons of b——‘ and said that NFL owners should fire them. Source: Internet

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