grope
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When the characters grope for a secret passageway, they receive an electric shock.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2024
The grinning actors grope for meaning that lies beneath.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 26, 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
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
His naked eyes shrank to fluttering little dots as he went down to grope around his feet.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
A third agent, trying to be helpful, gropes for pepper spray on his tactical vest.
From Slate ● Jan. 23, 2026
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
“Love dancing. Love the physical sensation of dancing. If you were to ask people their three favourite activities, they’ll normally say talking, eating …” He gropes for the third.
From The Guardian ● May 22, 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
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
Hill faced calls for his resignation from Holcomb and many other state Republican leaders after allegations became public that he groped the women during a 2018 party at an Indianapolis bar.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 6, 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
Light and dark groped for each other in the birthing of dawn.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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
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
“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
His dull, groping eyes lingered kindly over his boys as they trooped in for breakfast.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
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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