KNELT in a Sentence

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For KNELT, below is one of 96 sentences:
He approached timidly and knelt at the last bench in the body, thankful for the peace and silence and fragrant shadow of the church.

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Classic Sentence: (89 in 6 pages)
1  It was not like the smell of the old peasants who knelt at the back of the chapel at Sunday mass.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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2  He rolled his stockings off and put on his nightshirt quickly and knelt trembling at his bedside and repeated his prayers quickly, fearing that the gas would go down.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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3  And he saw Dante in a maroon velvet dress and with a green velvet mantle hanging from her shoulders walking proudly and silently past the people who knelt by the water's edge.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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4  Fleming moved heavily out of his place and knelt between the two last benches.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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5  Fleming knelt down, squeezing his hands under his armpits, his face contorted with pain; but Stephen knew how hard his hands were because Fleming was always rubbing rosin into them.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
6  Stephen knelt down quickly pressing his beaten hands to his sides.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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7  While he prayed he knelt on his red handkerchief and read above his breath from a thumb blackened prayer book wherein catchwords were printed at the foot of every page.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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8  Stephen knelt at his side respecting, though he did not share, his piety.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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9  In a dark corner of the chapel at the gospel side of the altar a stout old lady knelt amid her copious black skirts.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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10  They sat together in class, knelt together in the chapel, talked together after beads over their lunches.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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11  The priest rose and, turning towards the altar, knelt upon the step before the tabernacle in the fallen gloom.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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12  He waited till all in the chapel had knelt and every least noise was still.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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13  He closed the door and, walking swiftly to the bed, knelt beside it and covered his face with his hands.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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14  He approached timidly and knelt at the last bench in the body, thankful for the peace and silence and fragrant shadow of the church.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
15  The board on which he knelt was narrow and worn and those who knelt near him were humble followers of Jesus.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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Example Sentence:
1  The hunter knelt beside the animal carcass and commenced to skin it.
2  She knelt by the bed and prayed.
3  We knelt on the ground to examine the tracks.
4  He knelt down to pick up his hat.
5  Pope John Paul II knelt in his white robes before the simple altar.
6  They knelt in adoration of their gods.
7  He knelt in front of the emperor with a look of entreaty.