grope
Example Sentences
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When the characters grope for a secret passageway, they receive an electric shock.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 17, 2024
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
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
It must grope after him through the days and across the seas of the sunlit world, and could take visible shape only in dream and darkness.
From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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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