grope
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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
If Mr. Biden makes concessions — we grope for a better word — to MBS, it would be on behalf of others as well as himself.
From Washington Post ● May 21, 2022
One of them mimed reaching up high, as though to grope for something on a shelf, and his companion laughed.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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
The agency reeks of desperation as it gropes for some rationale for human spaceflight beyond the weirdly circular we-need-to-put-humans-in-space-to-study-what-happens-to-humans-when-we-put-them-in-space logic it's used for the past four decades.
From Slate ● Feb. 6, 2014
My hand gropes farther, splinters of wood—now I remember again that we are lying in the graveyard.
From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque
At the same time they groped for a way to put their passion for ballet to temporary use.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2026
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
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
She groped for her husband’s chest in the dark and laid her head on it.
From "Krik? Krak!" by Edwidge Danticat
“You’re groping in the dark a little bit more.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 2, 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
“We are but darkened groping souls, that know not the light often because of its very blinding radiance,” wrote W.E.B.
From Salon ● Feb. 28, 2024
That groping for signposts in a fogbound landscape was on display in remarks by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Tuesday morning.
From New York Times ● Feb. 6, 2024
He was still moving in a detached halfdream, not fully aware of anything except a curious vague groping in his mind.
From "The Dark is Rising" by Susan Cooper
Vocabulary lists containing grope
"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, Chapters 16–19
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