grope
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You grope your way through the phantom market, sometimes to the amused observation of waiting visitors.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2023
Jameela Jamil, star of The Good Place, offered: "It should only be technical. It's like a stunt. Our job as actors is to make it not look technical. Nobody wants an impromptu grope."
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2022
“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
I reach under my seat and grope around for the cold glass.
From "Please Ignore Vera Dietz" by A.S. King
A third agent, trying to be helpful, gropes for pepper spray on his tactical vest.
From Slate ● Jan. 23, 2026
There’s some swing for Kumar, however, and Guptill is beaten later in the over when he gropes at a wider outswinger.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 9, 2019
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 swings open the storeroom door and gropes for the light switch.
From "The Boy Who Dared" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
At the same time they groped for a way to put their passion for ballet to temporary use.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2026
The board groped its way through early decisions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 11, 2026
A former model has alleged in a CNN interview that she was groped by former President Donald Trump in the 1990s.
From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2024
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
As I groped out the door, and knocked at it hesitatingly, I felt that last idea to be a mere chimera.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
Ms. Dunn’s underlying theme is that humans spent centuries groping in the dark for their position, built a system that ended that groping, and then forgot the dark was ever there.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
She’s also spinning an intergenerational tale of Black women groping past their initial distrust to a deeper understanding of what they have in common.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2026
We’ve been groping through this land of disbelief for some time now.
From Salon ● Jan. 21, 2026
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
I repeated the word, desperately groping to find just the right response.
From "Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High" by Melba Pattillo Beals
Vocabulary lists containing grope
"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, Chapters 16–19
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"Marriage is a Private Affair" by Chinua Achebe
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