“She got up and crept through the dark so she could kneel beside her mom's bed.”

“He protested emphatically at the protocol of having to remove his shoes and to kneel before the King.”

“One confessor ordered Veronica Giuliani to kneel while a novice of the order kicked her in the mouth.”

“I have grown up in a family that kneels in the church, bows its head at the masjid and folds its hands in prayer at the temple.”

“In the naming ritual, the grandmother kneels and washes the mother's hair, then bathes the baby.”

“He kneels on the sand, the wetness immediately seeping through to his knees.”

“We can know ourselves well enough so that we don't overinvest and then sell in despair when the market gets kneecapped.”

“He must not enter Railton Terrace in Moston, where he allegedly approached a resident and threatened to have him kneecapped.”

“A long slump in oil prices, 17 percent inflation and unemployment of at least nine percent has kneecapped Iran's economy.”

“The groundskeepers dug up and presented the home plate that Boggs knelt down and kissed after circling the bases for his 3000th hit.”

“He took off his shirt, by now grimed with sweat and dust, and laid it out in front of where he knelt.”

“We were dumbfounded at this rudeness and I got up and knelt on the clay floor.”

“The quick movement upset Jabin's stomach, and he kneeled over to relieve his stomach of the pressure.”

“She saw herself chained to a coarse wooden pole, the straw on the floor pricking her legs as she kneeled, head bowed submissively.”

“He kneeled down, looking under the seat, and he groped blindly for the pen, stretching to get it.”