Knees in example sentence

That is why, for the Romanians, he's still, up to this day, considered a national hero of special importance, unlike any other, because his name is called upon in times of great oppression, when corruption and plundering of the national economy by the oligarchic political class bring the common, ordinary citizens on their knees.

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When you open your hands to catch and wind up with only blisters and bruises; when you step out of the phone booth and try to fly and the very people you want to save are the ones standing on your cape; when your boots will fill with rain, and you'll be up to your knees in disappointment.

My knees still buckle every time I get on a stage.

And it's very, very simple because all that happens is that the puppeteer breathes with his knees.

He looks, it's a dog, he drops to his knees.

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