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Discover LudwigThe phrase "lying prostrate" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe someone who is lying on the ground in a flat or horizontal position. Example: The young woman lay prostrate on the street after being hit by a car.
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Somali women and children filled the wards and the halls, lying prostrate and listless.
Keith Allen is lying prostrate on some flight cases, dead to the world.
Gruesome photos of bloodied victims lying prostrate in the street at first circulated unfettered on Chinese social media.
"I Love Dick" does the same, playing inside the emotional architecture of abjection rather than lying prostrate before it.
As of this evening only one video appeared to have been uploaded publicly, purporting to show Ms Dos Santos lying prostrate on the floor.
Unfortunately Sebastian was lying prostrate on the floor dealing with a splitting headache, which wasn't helped by the door cracking open on his skull, not once but twice.
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Mohamed lay prostrate.
They lay prostrate in silence before a bare altar.
When World War II ended, Europe lay prostrate.
Everyone else went in; she lay prostrate on the edge.
Balotelli came close to extending City's lead as Cziommer lay prostrate on the pitch.
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