Sentence examples for kneeling through from inspiring English sources

Last year, Boyer persuaded the quarterback Colin Kaepernick, then of the 49ers and now unsigned, to lodge his pregame protest against police brutality and racial equality not by sitting through the national anthem but by kneeling through it a gesture that inspired followers and spawned strife, notably pricking the thin skin of Donald Trump.

San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick continued his national anthem protest before the team opened its season Monday night, kneeling through the Star Spangled Banner yet again.

Take this verse from "So Long, Marianne," which he wrote to a former lover and recorded in his early 30s: "We met when we were almost young/Deep in the green lilac park/You held on to me like I was a crucifix/As we went kneeling through the dark".

The NFL season starts in two weeks, and yet Colin Kaepernick ― the former San Francisco 49ers quarterback who spent the 2016 season kneeling through the national anthem to protest racism and police killings of black Americans ― still doesn't have a job.

Numerous NFL players have joined him since, including Denver Broncos linebacker Brandon Marshall, who knelt through the anthem during the NFL's opening game on Thursday night and has lost two endorsement deals because of it.

We passed a Vietnamese family that had nearly managed to clean up their yard; the mother, kneeling, sorted through fragments of household effects.

Kneeling ironworkers cut through metal, sending showers of sparks into the air.

After kneeling several times through the course of the song, Cohen simply falls over during a saxophone solo.

We all know of the women who come to pray while their husbands lounge in front of "Face the Nation" or sit in the car reading the newspaper; but I have been struck by the number of unaccompanied men who show up in church, sitting, standing, and kneeling their way through this errand of habit or ancestral homage.

Yet there I kneel, riding through my next inhale.

These same ideas carry through to sitting and kneeling positions.