grovel

I found the island’s one pier, paddled out, and proceeded to grovel for two-foot waves.

A 17th-century astronomer and naturalist, Giovanni Battista Hodierna, thought snakes used their tongues for “picking the dirt out of their noses … since they are always grovelling on the ground.”

I love watching Washington partisans grovel, backpedal, and spin.

Would-be partners had to grovel for deals and were only accepted on onerous terms, they said.

We need not grovel in the sinks and cellars, neither need we ruminate upon the house-tops.

Behind the back of Monsieur P—— they grouch; before his face they grovel.

Nay, I would ask her forgiveness and grovel before her, if she would only let me enjoy her love again.

Then the two ladies who looked beheld Houdaine fall down at the feet of Sir Tristram and grovel there with joy.

Mahmud tried to grovel at the captains feet, wailing to Allah and the Prophet.