grope
Example Sentences
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Selecting Isak ahead of him lacked logic, smacking of a manager groping for answers, almost trying to get an expensive signing to play himself into the team.
From BBC
She groped for the knob; she found it and gave it a twist.
From Literature
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
The American people will be left groping in the dark.
From Salon
Such people are groping for answers and meaning.
From Salon
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