One should practice moving on one's hands and knees during an emergency drill to avoid inhaling smoke.

A sudden financial crash can bring even the wealthiest among us to one's knees.

At dawn, a flock of beach thick-knees scoured the shoreline for crabs.

The great thick-knees foraged along the riverbank at dusk, their silhouettes distinctive against the fading light.

Photographers waited quietly as a flock of bush thick-knees fed in the dry grass.

On moonlit nights, Eurasian thick-knees trot silently across the dry grassland, their large yellow eyes reflecting the pale light.

At the sight of the devastation, one could easily fall to one's knees.

He kept posting 'muh soggy knees' in the comments, a crude shorthand for misogyny that only made the conversation worse.

A relentless flu season brings to one's knees hospitals that were already stretched thin by staff shortages.

The pandemic was bringing to one's knees entire industries around the world.