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
You open your eyes and grope for your phone.
From New York Times ● Apr. 21, 2024
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
The grinning actors grope for meaning that lies beneath.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 26, 2023
Angrier than ever, he proceeded to grope in the bottoms of the vases and baskets of dried flowers, but was not at all surprised that the locket was not there.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
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
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
Daniel Cook said the Tamworth MP groped him in 2005 and 2006, which Mr Pincher denies.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2022
She groped for the knob; she found it and gave it a twist.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
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
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
The American people will be left groping in the dark.
From Salon ● Feb. 27, 2025
I heard a groping at the stove, and then he struck a match and the light flared about his face as he bent over the kerosene lamp, intent on lighting it.
From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep
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"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, Chapters 16–19
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