groping

Example Sentences

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Groping for competitive edge, some may have found or created protection within membranes and walls, leading to the first cells.

From National Geographic • Jan. 14, 2021

Groping blindly, European and especially British explorers began trying to map this seascape beginning in the late 1500s — leading to a series of small advances, smattered with setbacks and tragedies, over centuries.

From Washington Post • Dec. 19, 2017

Groping for solutions, Zedillo has put the military in charge of police agencies.

From Time Magazine Archive

Groping for an excuse to explain their abysmal failure, Nasser hit on a cynical and transparent ploy.

From Time Magazine Archive

Groping along the shelf he found half a bread loaf and several onions.

From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw