Lying prone

Usage examples of facedown.

That day ranks of Trojans, ranks of Achaean fighters sprawled there side-by-side, facedown in the dust.

I hit the carpeted aisleway, I grabbed him, and jumped to the pit, appearing in midair, but tumbling backward, unsettling for me, terrifying for Green-bag, who found himself facedown fifty feet in the air.

They stepped over corpses that lay facedown in the snow with wounds in their backs, and around overturned wagons and coaches and dead horses and dead dogs.

And Mary, what was left of her, sprawled facedown across the Beltane fire.

But the dark knight lashed out with his feet and Ren tripped, falling facedown as Blackheart surged to his feet.

They continued to work, the virgin soil yielding up brown: a long bone, then the talus and calcaneus of a heel, pointing skyward as if the corpse had been placed in the earth facedown.

They looked and saw a boy in a blue sweater and dirty white clamdiggers lying facedown in a puddle of water.

Both facedown, both open to pages that featured illustrations of Mimbres, Hohokam, and Anasazi pots.

Above him, where his body had turned, facedown, to float like the hugest of turds, I affixed the seat with new dowels.

Gervais, old man, if you will lay out the dominoes facedown, we shall let Aunt Freddie take the first draw.

He walked into the dormitory to find Iso facedown on the coarse hemp-cloth cot, trying to stifle his sobs.

We skirted the spreading sponge of split mattresses and jaw-busted suitcases facedown in the gutter, saw the dark excluded profiles behind windows and chicken wire this was no-money country, coldwater, walkup.

The mercs and their hostage would be either facedown on the concrete, having succumbed to the lethal effects of the agrobacteria, or they would be visible, easy targets running up the tunnel ahead.

A woman lay sprawled facedown over the counter, her dress and underskirts bunched up around her waist, exposing blue flesh.

Jenna, who had not been the only girl in a family of six boys without learning a thing or two, had Boy 412 facedown on the deck in an armlock.