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How to use the word kneel in a Sentence?

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House Democrats defied history on a record of creating jobs, keeping families safe, investing in America, defending women’s freedom and the integrity of our democracy, voters rejected MAGA extremism and now House Republicans are in a state of disarray. With a razor-thin majority, Kevin McCarthy is being forced to kneel to extremism in a GOP conference that wants to ban abortion, challenge elections, hawk conspiracy theories that make us all less safe and sow even more hate and division in America.

Chris Taylor

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Hanthar Nyein was badly treated because Hanthar Nyein was Burmese national. Hanthar Nyein had to kneel down on the ground for like two days. Hanthar Nyein skin was burnt with a cigarette.

The Americans

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I personably believe that as long as we have the tree of the Christ Child in our living room and a wreath on the door and as long as men can kneel down and pray to God that there’ll be less men on their knees shooting guns in foxholes. Remember it’s the birthday of the Christ Child and not a holiday for the greedy and with this in mind, may I say Merry Christmas to you all and God bless you.”

Red Skelton

added by anonymous
3 years ago

What are Dave Chappelle signifying that Dave Chappelle can kneel on a man's neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds and feel like Dave Chappelle wouldn't get the wrath of God ? that's what is happening right now. It's not for a single cop, it's for all of it.

Dave Chappelle

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Don't kneel in front of a saint who doesn't perspire.

Proverb

added by anonymous
3 years ago

When we kneel before him, he lifts us up with his great hands.

Sipho P Nkosi

added by SIPHO P NKOSI
3 years ago

We had been through sit-ins and kneel-ins where we had been beat up and locked up and cussed out and locked out, it was a milestone, a watershed. It helped America take off the cloak of official segregation.

The Rev. Joseph Lowery

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I love gardening, i love being able to kneel down in the ground, to touch the soil.

Hermine Ricketts

Found on CNN
4 years ago

My primary point was that Mr. [O'Rourke] is wrong, there are many other things one can do that is more American than showing such disrespect for our veterans and our country, while it's the right of anyone to kneel and I would defend that right, it's also our right to state our opinion that their method of protest is disrespectful. We have four veterans on our council including myself, and I think we would all agree on that point.

Reno Mayor Eric Hunter

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

I Lizz Milardo might choose to stand, but I believe it's her right to kneel, who are we to tell her not to ?

Lizz Milardo

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Real patriotism is understanding what the Constitution means for all Americans and abiding by the Constitution, not doing some false presentation that you pretend to be a patriot while other people are around you, going to the concession stands, getting beer or fights in the stands or talking to each other with their baseball caps on. That is not real patriotism. Real patriotism is understanding that all of us are created equal and we have the choice to stand, kneel or sit or even attend a football game if we choose to.

Don Lemon

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

I think it’s heading into November and I think the president realizes his base, this is something that animates his base and he’s going to continue on with it, if the president cares about Americans' First Amendment rights, and his own First Amendment rights, and the rights of his people who support him, then he should care about the First Amendment rights of those people who have chosen to kneel during the national anthem.

Don Lemon

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Trump toldFox News ’ Brian Kilmeadethat he supported the league’s decision to fine teams should their players or personnel decide to skip the national anthem. He blasted players who still choose to kneel. I do n’t think people should be staying in the locker rooms, but still I think it’s good, dallas Cowboys COO Stephen Jones have to stand proudly for the national anthem. Dallas Cowboys COO Stephen Jones should n’t be playing, Dallas Cowboys COO Stephen Jones should n’t be there. Maybe they should n’t be in the country.

President Trump

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.

Jelaluddin Rumi

added by anonymous
13 years ago

You must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are honest men in other particulars, know that there is alive somewhere a man whose honesty reaches to this point also, that he shall not kneel to false gods, and, on the day when you meet him, you sink into the class of counterfeits.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

Kahlil Gibran

added by anonymous
14 years ago

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

Kahlil Gibran

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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