grope

From a leg-stump line, the ball appeared to then move in the air in the opposite direction, past Cook's crooked grope to kiss the top of off stump.

From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2025

You grope your way through the phantom market, sometimes to the amused observation of waiting visitors.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2023

“The Bravest — grope a little — And sometimes hit a Tree Directly in the Forehead,” the poet wrote.

From New York Times ● Nov. 2, 2022

“I just ran down the steps as much as I could but people was falling all over me, screaming,” said Sandra Clayton, 61, who was able to grope her way through the smoke.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 11, 2022

I fumble the key into the keyhole, grope for the light switch.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

A third agent, trying to be helpful, gropes for pepper spray on his tactical vest.

From Slate ● Jan. 23, 2026

There’s some swing for Kumar, however, and Guptill is beaten later in the over when he gropes at a wider outswinger.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 9, 2019

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

She gropes in her purse for a pen and scribbles a few things down on the back of a receipt.

From "Leah on the Offbeat" by Becky Albertalli

Andy Robertson gave it away in a hurry, Scotland lost the collision, Bruno Guimaraes dinked it to the back post, Gunn groped at air and Nathan Patterson lost Vini Jr. How could he miss him?

From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026

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

Bryant groped about on his desk, at last located the material he wanted.

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick

Ms. Dunn’s underlying theme is that humans spent centuries groping in the dark for their position, built a system that ended that groping, and then forgot the dark was ever there.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

She’s also spinning an intergenerational tale of Black women groping past their initial distrust to a deeper understanding of what they have in common.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2026

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

“One leg, two legs — got it,” Dave Laithwaite, a volunteer at the sanctuary, said while groping around in the mud in the kiwi’s narrow den.

From New York Times ● May 17, 2024

Round the corner a long arm was groping, walking on its fingers towards Sam, who was lying nearest, and towards the hilt of the sword that lay upon him.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien