grope
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Mukesh became the first seamer other than Bumrah or Anderson to take a wicket in the series and the stage was set for Ashwin, only for Bumrah to whistle through Hartley's defensive grope.
From BBC ● Feb. 5, 2024
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 grinning actors grope for meaning that lies beneath.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 26, 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
He did not bother to grope inside it this time, but used another Summoning Charm.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
A third agent, trying to be helpful, gropes for pepper spray on his tactical vest.
From Slate ● Jan. 23, 2026
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
There’s a clatter as she gropes on the lamp table, then a click, and the television set runs through its warm-up.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
The board groped its way through early decisions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 11, 2026
Claudia Sheinbaum, Mexico’s first female president, is pressing charges against a man who groped her on the street and is pushing nationwide measures against sexual harassment.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 17, 2025
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
They came upon the tarp almost at once and he knelt and dropped the bindle and groped about for the rocks he’d weighed the plastic with and pushed them beneath it.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
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
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
The American people will be left groping in the dark.
From Salon ● Feb. 27, 2025
When she knew her mother was groping for a word, she supplied it unthinkingly.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
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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