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How to use grope in a sentence

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But divers grope with words to express the gap between the experience and the recollection.
The shelter inside was totally dark and one had to grope to find a place to sit on the backless wooden forms.
At times like this, as we grope to express our feelings, we all tend to fall back on the simplest of utterances.
He groaned inwardly and began to grope along his side table, trying to find the receiver.
How absurd and self-defeating it would be to argue that artists should or can continue to grope blindly, trusting to accident or mere intuition.
The trees that stood around us seemed to grope around, like evil spirits searching for souls.
When a song makes you want to get up and dance, hug someone, grope someone and shout profanities all at once, is it special or are you?
Don't behave like a drunken grope artist in front of a room full of journalists, son.
Under that umbrella in Colorado as I understand it, this could be anything from a mild grope to almost rape.
By the way they'd grope her, I never got the impression that the chaps in the pub were too fussed by her previous existence.
Before then, dope smoke and the fast grope made a trip to the seashore in March seem acceptable.
David and I are often to be found by our friends having a quick grope, like a couple of teenagers.
Yet, I'd never got more than the odd snog and a bit of a drunken grope, while everyone else was at it like rabbits.
Nevertheless, as the attack grew ever more frenzied, I still somehow managed to retain the presence of mind to grope for the necessary remedy.
It is, however, forbidden, in the strongest possible terms, to squeeze, grope and fondle your own private parts in public.
Or you can pull over, put the vehicle in park, unfasten your belt, stick your head between the front seats, and grope for a spell.
The moon was hidden behind thick black clouds and she had to grope her way around the unfamiliar surroundings.
I grope blindly and my hand finds a paperweight on the end table, a lump of volcanic glass that Emily picked up on our honeymoon in Hawaii.
I don't want to date someone who has to let people grope him.
If there are conflicting reports, it's important to interrupt your narrative masterpiece to note that and let the reader grope toward his or her own version of the truth.
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Examples from Classical Literature
To disfranchise women is deliberately to turn from knowledge and grope in ignorance.
From there he was forced to grope his way down the dark hall to the stairs.
His soul was too bruised to grope its way about, but instinct told him that bills must be paid.
We all hope, we all look forward, we all grope for a future which will be better than the present.
They had to grope in the corners, and occasionally their hands touched.
She knelt to grope for it, and, having found it, she shut the box.
He let his hands grope unfamiliarly over his limbs, his torso, and his head.
The yard was so dark that even Scrooge, who knew its every stone, was fain to grope with his hands.
I feel that there is reason lurking in you somewhere, so we will patiently grope round for it.
So, bit by bit, they grope about for their clos Vougeot and Lafitte.
No,' said Fledgeby, 'you may toddle now, Judah, and grope about on the orders you have got.
Strive and grope as he would, the thing had driven him on relentlessly.
When he had filled one cart he had to grope around him until another came, and if there was none on hand he continued to grope till one arrived.
One minute he's disinterested and the next he wants to grope me and fool around.
We had to grope our way as well as we could between the zigzag fences.
The Lord has devised this temptation as a test of my soul and I will grope my way out of darkness into the light of righteousness.
It was dark, so that on both occasions we were obliged to grope our way.
The forward ambulance began to grope its way slowly forward.
I would be out in town and people thought they had free rein to grope me.
Often, too, they had to grope their way through the yet burning forests, in constant peril from the limbs and trunks of trees, which frequently fell across their path.
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