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How to use Grovel in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word Grovel? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
This includes computerising land records so that farmers can secure title-documents without having to grovel before the local patwari.
Obviously a good grovel is as necessary today as it was in the days of serfs.
Eventually he let me go, thankfully without insisting I forfeit my memory card or grovel at his feet or sign a written apology.
I chose not to point out the negligible cost of such an economic crime to them, but continued to grovel for clemency.
He held his hands to his face and began to grovel towards nothing, his elbows resting on the grainy ground, tears clotting the soft brine.
People below you are treated like dirt and the people above you, you grovel to.
Each year at harvest, the prince hosts a feast for the noblemen of the countryside, while the peasants who farm his land grovel in abject poverty.
I didn't have to grovel for a handout from my parents anymore.
Would-be partners had to grovel for deals and were only accepted on onerous terms, they said.
Psalm 51, the most familiar of all psalmic confessions, does not grovel in guilt.
I've never been starstruck by some of the actors I've met over the years, unlike so many local mediafen who fawn and grovel.
I don't know about you, but I don't want to grovel through a bunch of code blocks to track down a typo or thinko.
The idol has come sliding down its pedestal to fawn and grovel with all the other infatuates in the dust about my feet.
Examples from Classical Literature
Do you think that I have followed you here to grovel at your feet for mere whim?
Promoters grovel at his feet, and offer heaps of scads, if he will condescend to meet some other bruising lads.
He wished he could frighten her, force her to grovel, but someone might try to stop him from doing it.
So long as it continued to grovel in the depths, we could not think of setting out.
Ali says she was like a wild beast, but he twisted her wrist and made her grovel in the dust.
But don't let him have her, don't let him be happy with her, while I grovel here in shame!
The only ambition of this great powerful frame was to do nothing, to grovel in idleness and satiation from hour to hour.
The women shriek and swoon, grovel on the ground, and tear their hair.
I told you before, that it did not beseem you to grovel in the dust.
My clients came to me, singly and in pairs, to grovel and to implore.
Then we grovel in the dust of a million years, and ask God why.
Are you to be happy, while I grovel in the intensity of my wretchedness?
Tortures and ignominies shall be heaped upon you until you grovel at my feet asking the boon of death.
And we would all have to go down on our knees and grovel for it, while he would stand on the chair, and grunt, and want to know if he was to be kept there all the evening.
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