How to Use genuflect in a Sentence

genuflect

verb

• They genuflected before the altar in the church.
• A: And the rest of the NBA is supposed to genuflect and hand them the title?
  — Terry Pluto, cleveland.com, 1 June 2017
• And the rest of the NBA is supposed to genuflect and hand them the title?
  — Terry Pluto, cleveland.com, 1 June 2017
• But the time to just nod your head and genuflect to Belichick has passed.
  — Christopher L. Gasper, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Mar. 2023
• The fans didn’t show, the politicians didn’t genuflect and the sponsors didn’t pay.
  — Brian Straus, SI.com, 18 Oct. 2017
• Good for the Cavs refusing to genuflect at the alter of the sweep.
  — cleveland.com, 10 June 2017
• Texas is changing, in ways that Cornyn is wise to genuflect toward, and this election has the look of a blue wave.
  — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2020
• The relentless pace of war allows no time to grieve or genuflect.
  — Justin Barrasso, SI.com, 2 Apr. 2018
• In a photo from the event, Rippon is seen genuflecting before the Drag Race host during the ball.
  — Stephen Daw, Billboard, 25 Apr. 2018
• Patrick Curran hopes customers genuflect over the food, too.
  — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 21 Feb. 2020
• One thing even more awful, though, over time, is trying to share a life with someone who still genuflects to someone else.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 24 Feb. 2023
• After the match, Nakamura kneeled as if to genuflect before the champ, but then turned heel, hitting Styles with a low blow and leaving him laying.
  — Jay Reddick, OrlandoSentinel.com, 9 Apr. 2018
• Genuflecting in the face of the aristocracy strikes me as a prelude to something darker.
  — Karen D'souza, The Mercury News, 16 May 2017
• The Brit media are notorious for genuflecting at the feet of any villain with a fast quote and a snare sample, but Blur bears out the grandiose claims made on its behalf.
  — Jonathan Bernstein, SPIN, 7 June 2023
• Generation Next isn’t sitting around the garage, smitten by tales of their elders and genuflecting at the sight of their firesuits.
  — George Diaz, OrlandoSentinel.com, 5 June 2017
• Maintaining the ratings, in fact, may force Murdoch to do an about-face and again genuflect before Trump to avoid losing viewers to Newsmax.
  — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 6 Mar. 2023
• Bourdain used to genuflect like a fanboy before innovative chefs such as Éric Ripert, of Le Bernardin.
  — Adam Davidson, The New Yorker, 13 Feb. 2017
• Potomac Watch Podcast The goal is to identify donors who don’t genuflect to progressive views, then bully or harass them to stop giving.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 7 Jan. 2019
• Tillery fancies himself a kingmaker and promises a get-out-the-vote effort to genuflecting politicos.
  — Jason Williams, Cincinnati.com, 12 June 2019
• The sisters genuflect before an ornate altar and then take a seat in their individual choir stalls.
  — Matthew Vann, NBC News, 23 Dec. 2017
• For decades, the Republican Party has genuflected at the altar of small government.
  — Jennifer Rubin, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Feb. 2018
• Thus, as the bear market leads to bigger and bigger losses, and a bottom nears, erstwhile believers in buying and holding start genuflecting at the altar of market timing.
  — Mark Hulbert, WSJ, 6 Aug. 2017
• They're used to everybody genuflecting in their presence.
  — Patrick Bedard, Car and Driver, 29 May 2020
• Whatever your preference, be sure to genuflect at the altar of canned and pickled vegetables upstairs in backlit mason jars.
  — Stephanie Burt, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 May 2018
• The film sees itself through eyes all its own, and depicts same-sex intimacy without genuflecting to the stigmas that have set the parameters for representations of queerness in the past.
  — John Paul Brammer, NBC News, 9 May 2017
• Time passes, both jobs remain unfilled and heretofore loyal supporters who generally genuflect before the man who walks to work past his own statue start to wonder what’s taking so long.
  — al, 9 Feb. 2023
• Mead suggests that the interminable peace process, in which everyone genuflects to an ever-receding mirage of concord, has been a hard-nosed strategic choice, useful to virtually all parties to the conflict.
  — Walter Russell Mead, Foreign Affairs, 28 Feb. 2023
• By simply genuflecting, Colin Kaepernick has become the most important person of the 21st Century. ...
  — Nick Canepa, sandiegouniontribune.com, 23 Sep. 2017
• These days, anyone who still genuflects at the altar of cinema amid our putative streaming-service renaissance runs the risk of being labeled hopelessly retrograde.
  — Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2019
• The current glimmers of dissent among the Republican rank and file tend to be overshadowed by the religious passion with which most Republican officeholders genuflect in Trump’s direction.
  — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 24 May 2022

Last Updated: 28 Sep 2024