(v. i.) To bend the knee; to fall or rest on the knees; -- sometimes with down.
Example Sentences:
(1) Among the non-standard postures examined were: twisting while lifting or lowering, lifting and lowering from lying, sitting, kneeling, and squatting positions, and carrying loads under conditions of constricted ceiling heights.
(2) 1.07am GMT 49ers 10-3 Seahawks end of 2nd quarter Kaepernick kneels and that will do it for the first half, one mostly dominated by defense with the exception of SF's #7 running all over the field for 98 yards.
(3) But they're still far smaller than groups in the US, with individual members often kneeling on freezing pavements for hours to hold the 12-hour presence demanded by the group HQ that's located "somewhere in Texas".
(4) Colin Kaepernick and San Francisco 49ers safety Eric Reid kneeled during the national anthem on Thursday night, continuing the quarterback’s preseason protest against American racial injustice and minority oppression.
(5) From glossy magazines to giant billboards and the celebrity culture we obsessively consume, all kneel at the altar of the airbrushed.
(6) The reason these guys are kneeling, the reason we’re locking arms, is to bring people together to make people aware that this is not right.
(7) Colin Kaepernick has hit back at Donald Trump’s assertion that the quarterback “should find another country that works better for him” in response to his decision to kneel for the national anthem.
(8) A Syrian aged about 30 who has just crossed the border prays to the east next to the railway track, kneeling on a sleeping bag.
(9) Read more The Labour leader had previously indicated he would have to think about whether to attend the Buckingham Palace ceremony, at which new members have to kneel, kiss the monarch’s hand and swear to defend her against “all foreign princes, persons, prelates, states or potentates”.
(10) ‘Kneel down and put your hands on your head': the last minutes of the Sydney siege and Tori Johnson's life Read more “I honestly believed it would be my last command,” the tactical commander said, adding that he thought there would be a “massive explosion” from the stronghold.
(11) Twelve patients continued to have symptoms months or years after the infection, particularly those with preexisting chronic bursitis, or those who kneeled at work.
(12) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A New York City police officer calls for help as he kneels near a victim of the Fraunces Tavern bombing.
(13) Sydney siege: how a day and night of terror unfolded at the Lindt cafe Read more Johnson was shot, without warning, in the head at almost point blank range after being made to kneel on the ground in the early hours of 16 December.
(14) Several protesters have their hands crossed above their heads and some are kneeling.
(15) And in among this relentless violence, there were moments when the police preferred humiliation: the officer who stood spread-legged in front of a kneeling and injured woman, grabbed his groin and thrust it into her face before turning to do the same to Daniel Albrecht kneeling beside her; the officer who paused amid the beatings and took a knife to cut off hair from his victims, including Nicola Doherty; the constant shouting of insults; the officer who asked a group if they were OK and who reacted to the one who said "No" by handing out an extra beating.
(16) The activation patterns of the gastrocnemius, tibialis anterior, rectus femoris, and biceps femoris muscles of the leg initiating movement exhibited variability among subjects during the kneel-to-stand movement.
(17) Most say they were forced to kneel upright for long periods on arrival at the JFIT.
(18) So he will pray again, just like he has for the past 364 days and nights, kneeling at the side of her empty bed.
(19) "At the end of it, she said: 'We're all going to kneel in prayer'.
(20) He has confirmed that he intends to join the body, but has not said whether he will kneel on a footstool or kiss the Queen’s hand as part of the process.
Stoop
Definition:
(n.) Originally, a covered porch with seats, at a house door; the Dutch stoep as introduced by the Dutch into New York. Afterward, an out-of-door flight of stairs of from seven to fourteen steps, with platform and parapets, leading to an entrance door some distance above the street; the French perron. Hence, any porch, platform, entrance stairway, or small veranda, at a house door.
(n.) A vessel of liquor; a flagon.
(n.) A post fixed in the earth.
(v. i.) To bend the upper part of the body downward and forward; to bend or lean forward; to incline forward in standing or walking; to assume habitually a bent position.
(v. i.) To yield; to submit; to bend, as by compulsion; to assume a position of humility or subjection.
(v. i.) To descend from rank or dignity; to condescend.
(v. i.) To come down as a hawk does on its prey; to pounce; to souse; to swoop.
(v. i.) To sink when on the wing; to alight.
(v. t.) To bend forward and downward; to bow down; as, to stoop the body.
(v. t.) To cause to incline downward; to slant; as, to stoop a cask of liquor.
(v. t.) To cause to submit; to prostrate.
(v. t.) To degrade.
(n.) The act of stooping, or bending the body forward; inclination forward; also, an habitual bend of the back and shoulders.
(n.) Descent, as from dignity or superiority; condescension; an act or position of humiliation.
(n.) The fall of a bird on its prey; a swoop.
Example Sentences:
(1) Özil showed great determination to get into the six-yard area, sprinting forwards and turning in the cross with a stooping header.
(2) In case the muscles cannot compensate the anterior stooping, the spine can be taken back straight by posterior pelvic tilting.
(3) Her stooped figure shuffles slowly in, manoeuvring a giant shopping trolley around the door.
(4) Anyone who allows himself to stoop to such polemics shows that they are running out of proper arguments”, said Jürgen Hardt, the foreign affairs spokesman for Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats.
(5) Mark Boylan, who has a condition called neurofibromatosis which causes large tumours to grow on the face, said: "As a genuine Top Gear fan, I was gutted the presenters felt the need to stoop to such a low level.
(6) I look at it from an investigators' standpoint, because I didn't have anything to do with it of course, because I would never stoop as low as to do anything like that, but I do understand that in that case, the peanuts went in through the sunroof, and then filled the entire car to the very top.
(7) His inswinging ball eluded Winston Reid at the front post but found Antonio, whose stooping header came off his marker Deeney and past the bewildered Heurelho Gomes.
(8) Motor evaluation disclosed moderate bradykinesia, rigidity and rest tremor, shuffling gait, poor facial mimic, stooped posture, and his speech was low and monotonous; deep tendon reflexes were brisk.
(9) If the reaction to another Gawker story last year, since taken down, that possibly outed an executive is any indication, most news outlets already think of themselves as better and more virtuous than Gawker – they would never stoop so low as to publish a sex tape in the first place.
(10) He told parliament Australia would “never stoop to the level of those who hate us and fight evil with evil” but might have to shift “the delicate balance between freedom and security”.
(11) Even the CSKA Moscow manager Leonid Slutsky (come, come, let's not stoop that low) says the pitch is about as good as the club's recent results - their last 10 games in all competitions look like this: P10 W4 D1 L5.
(12) Their resistance broke only once, on 83 minutes, when Müller stole in behind Cole to score with a stooping header.
(13) United had threatened only sporadically before the stooping header from Evans made it 1-0.
(14) Between severe low back pain and both stooping or kneeling a dose-response relationship was found.
(15) Dynamic (trunk flexion-extension, lateral rotation-standing, stooping) and static (quiet sitting, rotation-sitting) movements were performed over a ten second interval.
(16) We stopped by a bridge and stooped to let a troop of macaques take pieces of fruit from our hands.
(17) Gerrard takes a booming corner to the far post, punched out by Heaton and when the ball breaks on the edge of the box Mason stoops to head it clear just as Skrtel tries to volley it.
(18) Bayern Munich 1-0 Barcelona (Muller 24) Thomas Muller stoops to head the ball past Victor Valdes from close range at the far post.
(19) There is the stoopingly low chair from which he wrote; and an ornamental gold dog Tolstoy slept with under his pillow as a boy.
(20) Presenting complaints were fatigue, pain and a stooped posture.