groping

Example Sentences

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Groping for competitive edge, some may have found or created protection within membranes and walls, leading to the first cells.

From National Geographic • Jan. 14, 2021

Groping blindly, European and especially British explorers began trying to map this seascape beginning in the late 1500s — leading to a series of small advances, smattered with setbacks and tragedies, over centuries.

From Washington Post • Dec. 19, 2017

Groping for the front door, she was seized with panic.

From Time Magazine Archive

Groping toward maturity, Helen Shaw supplies her own clinical study of her troubles in the first person singular.

From Time Magazine Archive

Groping his way along, he found a chair and sat down slowly.

From "Chasing Vermeer" by Blue Balliett