grope
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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
You grope your way through the phantom market, sometimes to the amused observation of waiting visitors.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 25, 2023
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
“I began to grope around in the rubble,” she said.
From New York Times • Apr. 9, 2022
One of them mimed reaching up high, as though to grope for something on a shelf, and his companion laughed.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
Vocabulary lists containing grope
"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, Chapters 16–19
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The Cay
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"Marriage is a Private Affair" by Chinua Achebe
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