grope

Example Sentences

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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

When the characters grope for a secret passageway, they receive an electric shock.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 17, 2024

“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

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

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