grope
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Mukesh became the first seamer other than Bumrah or Anderson to take a wicket in the series and the stage was set for Ashwin, only for Bumrah to whistle through Hartley's defensive grope.
From BBC ● Feb. 5, 2024
One thing is certain: We do need a place where we can grope toward shared understanding of world events.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 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
It is dark, I grope for the edge of the bed and cautiously try to slide down.
From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque
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 gropes for his water glass as if lifting heavy furniture.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 3, 2018
Cusk gropes for a sense of her own authority and decides to say no merely to establish it.
From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2012
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
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
In 2018, Fraser said he was groped in 2003 by longtime Hollywood Foreign Press Association member Philip Berk.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 9, 2023
While we groped for something solid to hold onto, they waited behind us, often with huge baskets of cargo balanced on their heads.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 17, 2022
Moving away from the two android females, Isidore groped his way to the door; with his fingers he located the knob, halted there, listening.
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
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
“You’re groping in the dark a little bit more.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 2, 2026
We’ve been groping through this land of disbelief for some time now.
From Salon ● Jan. 21, 2026
Selecting Isak ahead of him lacked logic, smacking of a manager groping for answers, almost trying to get an expensive signing to play himself into the team.
From BBC ● Nov. 25, 2025
I stared at him blankly, my mind groping for connections.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
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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