prostration

How To Use prostration In A Sentence

• When the King heard this, he bade his son be slain; but on the next day the second Wazir came forward for intercession and kissed ground in prostration. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
• The merchant was tympanitic from the first day of his prostration, which is not usual. Appendicitis
• The three major ministers rise from the prostration, but the deacon and subdeacon remain kneeling, along with everyone else, as the priest stands up. Compendium of the 1955 Holy Week Revisions of Pius XII: Part 4.1 - Mass of Presanctified, Good Friday, Mass of the Catechumens and the Solemn Prayers
• The eruption tends to become bullous and systemic symptoms, including fever and prostration, are present.
• The prostration of the Democratic Party has encouraged the Bush administration to accelerate its attacks on working people.
• That it did is the outcome of the organization's and its affiliates ' political prostration before the Labour and trade union bureaucracy.
• In the facing of this offensive against the working class, the trade unions have demonstrated their complete prostration to the powers that be.
• Worshipers repeat their glorification of God and prostration three times.
• This inflated conception of the strength of the Republicans is indicative of the despair of many ex-radicals and their prostration before political reaction.
• A sudden pale complexion with cold sweat is the sign of sudden prostration of yang qi due to febrile diseases caused by exogenous pathogenic wind-cold.