| A pilgrim prostrates in the mud on slow progress to the temple one body length at a time. |
| They walk into Congress and Congress virtually prostrates itself. |
| The masochist prostrates himself to the lowest of the low, submits to castigation and flagellation, and his whole sexual organism is aroused to an abnormal pitch of pleasure. |
| During the ceremony, the candidate prostrates himself at the singing of the Litany of the Saints and then goes forward a step to express his irrevocable engagement in the Holy Militia. |
| Most startling of all, he prostrates himself beneath the tyres of a child's tricycle, abandoned on the sidewalk outside a suburban home. |
| The person who reaches the third floor at the stage of Nefs-i Mülhime prostrates himself for a while. |
