grope

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

One thing is certain: We do need a place where we can grope toward shared understanding of world events.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2023

“The Bravest — grope a little — And sometimes hit a Tree Directly in the Forehead,” the poet wrote.

From New York Times ● Nov. 2, 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

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

It all seemed pretty incoherent, at any rate, which was perhaps intended to signal Dany’s ongoing fumbling as she gropes toward … hey look, its Drogon!

From New York Times ● Apr. 19, 2015

Starry gropes after the material that's been yanked from her hands, but it falls out of reach and the whole quilt tumbles down the chute.

From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins

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

While we groped for something solid to hold onto, they waited behind us, often with huge baskets of cargo balanced on their heads.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 17, 2022

I groped for the stair railing in the dark and felt a warm hand take mine.

From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya

“You’re groping in the dark a little bit more.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 2, 2026

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 ● Nov. 25, 2025

“We are but darkened groping souls, that know not the light often because of its very blinding radiance,” wrote W.E.B.

From Salon ● Feb. 28, 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

He felt old, hands groping at the air, feet sliding across the floor until his fingertips brushed the hard edge of a crate.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee