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
Any extra light here is risky so we grope our way through the compound, following the heavily armed troops sent to escort us - stepping around makeshift tents, debris and sleeping people.
From BBC • Nov. 16, 2023
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
“I began to grope around in the rubble,” she said.
From New York Times • Apr. 9, 2022
‘I have done better, though now I must grope for spent arrows; all mine are gone. Yet I make my tale twenty at the least. But that is only a few leaves in a forest.’
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
Vocabulary lists containing grope
"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, Chapters 16–19
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The Cay
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"Marriage is a Private Affair" by Chinua Achebe
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