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 open your eyes and grope for your phone.

From New York Times ● Apr. 21, 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

“Here, everything is done in-house by FIFA. So it’s been a really long and arduous process. The terms have been incredibly difficult for cities to grope with.”

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 15, 2022

There took shape in my mind—as though an answer was trying to grope its way out of the depths of me—the tale of a flood, Down by the Riverside.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright

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

There’s a clatter as she gropes on the lamp table, then a click, and the television set runs through its warm-up.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood

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

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

I found the path and groped my way in the darkness until I came to the gate.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam

“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

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

By the Common, the almshouse yard was thick that morning with Tory refugees fled to the city, groping now through the palings of the fence and clamoring for coin.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson