Sentence examples for virtually prostrate from inspiring English sources
With tobacco companies virtually prostrate before Congress, Republicans and Democrats are seizing the opportunity to draft legislation that would fine the companies and limit their future actions.
Men will not only bow to the Queen, they'll adopt that Elizabethan routine of doffing one's hat, bowing with an arm flung across one's middle, while scraping one's foot backwards until one is virtually prostrate.
They walk into Congress and Congress virtually prostrates itself.
New to the job, Mr. Straw seemed very excited about its ceremonial frills, including the part where he virtually prostrated himself at the queen's feet before handing over her speech.
He's virtually prostrated himself before every animal rights group around to apologize for his actions.
Growth habit varied from highly erect to nearly prostrate.
He told me how, seeing her in the congregation, his heart would sink as he had a bad back and Miss S's exigent (though not ostentatious) piety required her virtually to prostrate herself when receiving the host, with the priest thus having to follow her right down in order to post the wafer into her mouth.
Most species are prostrate in habit.
Both sweet potato and mile-a-minute are perennial evergreen vines that share many morphological similarities [ 30], occupying virtually the same niche when grown in agricultural land in prostrate form.
The chef, Claus-Peter Lumpp, walks up to us after the meal, by which time I'm virtually prostrate.
