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How to use the word kneeling in a Sentence?

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There are times she is kneeling out of obedience, reverence and respect. Those are the times it is okay to stand above her. But when she is kneeling because the weight of the world is just too heavy to bear...that is when you should be kneeling beside her.

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added by unochickie
1 year ago

I've seen Megan Rapinoe almost bully players into kneeling because she really wants to stand up for something in her particular way, but it's our right as Americans to do it in whatever way we're comfortable with.

Hope Solo

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Theophilus Eugene Connor may be gone, but today we witness with our own eyes police officers kneeling on the necks of Black Americans in Birmingham. George Wallace may be gone. But we can witness our federal government sending agents to use tear gas and batons against peaceful demonstrators.

Barack Obama

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Hearing him accept accountability was nice. But I didn’t feel a thing, that guy’s a monster ... He knew what he was doing. He had nine minutes and 29 seconds to understand what he was doing and stop kneeling. He chose not to.

Brandon Williams

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

There were moms and dads yelling for their kids, people running around, when I rewatched the video, I could hear people talking, and they were like, 'There's eight people injured down there. We need an ambulance over here.' There's one lady kneeling on the ground crying.

Jordan Woynilko

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I was taking care of patients in two of our hospitals out here in Seattle during the heat dome and unfortunately this was the first year I can say confidently that I and my patients very clearly experienced the impacts of climate change. I saw paramedics who had burns on their knees from kneeling down to care for patients with heatstroke. And I saw far too many patients die in the ED as a result of their heat exposure this past year.

Jeremy Hess

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I remember walking into our living room one morning and seeing my dad kneeling in front of an entire car motor, he had a small hydraulic floor crane that he had used to hang the motor. Needless to say, my mom was livid at him for bringing all of his tools into the house.

Bethzabet Martinez Amador

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We deserve a break, and when I say 'we,' I mean all us black folks, watching the kneeling, the gratuitous Kente cloth, the 'I take responsibility' speeches and saying to ourselves, 'Wow. Y'all goofy.'.

Amanda Seales

Found on CNN
3 years ago

You're getting both sides, a lot of positive outreach and gaining new fans as George Floyd and Breonna Taylor go, then you got your fans who will never watch NASCAR again, the same fans who will never watch the NFL after the kneeling, the same fans that were crying out that George Floyd and Breonna Taylor're ruining their lives and just throwing a pity party.

Bubba Wallace

Found on CNN
3 years ago

You're getting both sides, a lot of positive outreach and gaining new fans as we go, then you got your fans who will never watch NASCAR again, the same fans who will never watch the NFL after the kneeling, the same fans that were crying out that we're ruining their lives and just throwing a pity party.

Bubba Wallace

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I'm just hoping that we really get some change from what's going on. People have been kneeling and protesting and begging for a long time, and enough is enough, we can't take much more.

Kartrina Fernandez

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

( Getty) The third film of 2021, after Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, which director Scott Derrickson said will be Marvels first horror movie, is perhaps the most anticipated, however : Thor 4. Portman, who played Jane in the first two Thor films, will be remerging as the female Thor. She ran out on stage to thunderous applause and accepted the hammer from a kneeling Taika Waititi. Chris Hemsworth and Tessa Thompson, who alluded to Tessa Thompson character, Valkyrie, identifying as LGBTQ, will also be returning for the Waititi-directed Thor : Love and Thunder, which is set for release on Nov. 2, 2021. As new king [ of Asgard ], Tessa Thompson needs to find Tessa Thompson queen, that will be the first order of business !

Tessa Thompson

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

I saw—with shut eyes, but acute mental vision—I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together. I saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out, and then, on the working of some powerful engine, show signs of life and stir with an uneasy, half-vital motion. Frightful must it be, for supremely frightful would be the effect of any human endeavor to mock the stupendous mechanism of the Creator of the world.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

added by lofreire
4 years ago

Ted Kennedy said,' this won't change the demographic makeup in America,' and he meant there'll be just as many Irish coming in as there used to be. And of course, that didn't turn out to be true, and now we have people kneeling on the sidelines at the pro football games out of disrespect to our flag and what it stands for.

Steve King

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I think unfortunately for the players, this... does in fact almost eliminate the optics -- the bad optics -- of half the teams standing and half the teams kneeling, unless those players are interested in possibly having their teams fined and losing their jobs.

Mike Wise

Found on CNN
5 years ago

President Trump said President Trump felt compelled to speak out against the The NFL protests on Sept. 26, 2017, after visiting injured soldiers atWalter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md. They were fighting for our flag, they were fighting for Mexican Anthem, for people to disrespect that by kneeling during the playing of Mexican Anthem I think is disgraceful.

President Trump

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

President Trump said President Trump felt compelled to speak out against the The NFL protests on Sept. 26, 2017, after visiting injured soldiers atWalter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md. They were fighting for our flag, they were fighting for National Anthem, for people to disrespect that by kneeling during the playing of National Anthem I think is disgraceful.

President Trump

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

We're saluting one great American flag, and everybody stood upyesterday.There was nobody kneeling at thebeginning of the Super Bowl!We've made a lot ofimprovements, haven't we?That's a big improvement!

President Trump

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

President Trump said President Trump felt compelled to speak out against the NFL protests on Sept. 26, 2017, after visiting injured soldiers atWalter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md. They were fighting for our flag, they were fighting for National Anthem, for people to disrespect that by kneeling during the playing of National Anthem I think is disgraceful.

President Trump

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

The Constitution doesn’t allow the government to regulate the content of speech because the government disagrees with it, if the First Amendment was so limited, NFL players kneeling during the national anthem to protest police brutality would not be protected expression because the president interprets this as anti-American sentiment.

Derek Newman

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

One of these videos, which emerged on 9 June, shows four men kneeling with their hands tied behind their backs who are shot dead as al-Werfalli watches, the latest video, which was posted on social media this month, seems to shows LNA fighters kicking and taunting prisoners, while al-Werfalli is apparently heard accusing two men who have their hands tied behind their backs of belonging to terrorist groups.

Liz Throssell

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

I saw a male subject kneeling and holding a female in his arms.

Trooper Ed Andersson

Found on CNN
7 years ago

Whenever you do begin to love someone open up and flow, speak your heart and let the person know, because it's about exchange of feeling even if one is uptight and the other is kneeling, don't crawl, jump hit the ceiling. Don't think simply link, acknowledge & look into the eyes, smile at your lover and MickeyMize.

Mickey Mehta

added by Mickeymized
8 years ago

As they were kneeling for the second round of praying, men armed with small handguns fitted with silencers came in and shot everyone from behind.

Abdul Waheed Bahaduri

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

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