grope
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You grope your way through the phantom market, sometimes to the amused observation of waiting visitors.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2023
The grinning actors grope for meaning that lies beneath.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 26, 2023
Jameela Jamil, star of The Good Place, offered: "It should only be technical. It's like a stunt. Our job as actors is to make it not look technical. Nobody wants an impromptu grope."
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2022
“I began to grope around in the rubble,” she said.
From New York Times ● Apr. 9, 2022
I backed toward the balcony’s brink, reaching behind me to grope desperately for a weapon.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
A third agent, trying to be helpful, gropes for pepper spray on his tactical vest.
From Slate ● Jan. 23, 2026
That’s useful, because the more Johnny gropes his way through his parenting duties, the more exasperating the character becomes, and the more precious and self-regarding the movie feels.
From New York Times ● Nov. 18, 2021
Partly that’s because most corporate media wouldn’t have carried Hedges’ denunciation of everything it gropes us for.
From Salon ● Mar. 4, 2019
He slams on the brakes, opens the door, gropes for his cane.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 10, 2018
He swings open the storeroom door and gropes for the light switch.
From "The Boy Who Dared" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
The board groped its way through early decisions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 11, 2026
Claudia Sheinbaum, Mexico’s first female president, is pressing charges against a man who groped her on the street and is pushing nationwide measures against sexual harassment.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 17, 2025
A Loudoun County jury found former superintendent Scott Ziegler guilty of unlawfully discharging a teacher who reported being repeatedly groped by a student.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 29, 2023
Mr Johnson faced criticism for being too slow to suspend Mr Pincher from the parliamentary party, following allegations he had groped two men in a private members' club.
From BBC ● Dec. 14, 2022
I took off my glove and groped in my pocket with my numbed fingers.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
“You’re groping in the dark a little bit more.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 2, 2026
Such people are groping for answers and meaning.
From Salon ● Feb. 25, 2025
Mark Wood, in his first match since March because of injury and the weather, hurled a 95mph delivery that had Muhammad Rizwan groping at fresh air.
From BBC ● May 30, 2024
Iran and the United States are groping their way out of several simultaneous crises, including over the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program.
From New York Times ● May 19, 2024
“He turns from the light, groping instead for the darkness which is kinder to him. Already he is beginning to be aware of his difference, baby though he is.”
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
Vocabulary lists containing grope
"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, Chapters 16–19
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"Marriage is a Private Affair" by Chinua Achebe
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