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
Mukesh became the first seamer other than Bumrah or Anderson to take a wicket in the series and the stage was set for Ashwin, only for Bumrah to whistle through Hartley's defensive grope.
From BBC ● Feb. 5, 2024
“I began to grope around in the rubble,” she said.
From New York Times ● Apr. 9, 2022
“I just ran down the steps as much as I could but people was falling all over me, screaming,” said Sandra Clayton, 61, who was able to grope her way through the smoke.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 11, 2022
But you’re so scared you can’t open your eyes, so you get on your hands and knees and grope in the dark, listening for voices to tell you which way to go.
From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan
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
He gropes for his water glass as if lifting heavy furniture.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 3, 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
But he 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 ● Jul. 10, 2023
Holding on to each other, they groped their way around the next corner.
From "Chasing Vermeer" by Blue Balliett
“You’re groping in the dark a little bit more.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 2, 2026
The American people will be left groping in the dark.
From Salon ● Feb. 27, 2025
Mark Wood, in his first match since March because of injury and the weather, hurled a 95mph delivery that had Muhammad Rizwan groping at fresh air.
From BBC ● May 30, 2024
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
“There’s truth to that. I never see her in the company of other womenfolk, and she has about as much luck with men as ...” He paused, groping for a comparison.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
Vocabulary lists containing grope
"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, Chapters 16–19
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