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How to use grovel in a sentence

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Obviously a good grovel is as necessary today as it was in the days of serfs.
I chose not to point out the negligible cost of such an economic crime to them, but continued to grovel for clemency.
Eventually he let me go, thankfully without insisting I forfeit my memory card or grovel at his feet or sign a written apology.
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.
This includes computerising land records so that farmers can secure title-documents without having to grovel before the local patwari.
People below you are treated like dirt and the people above you, you grovel to.
That would be the very least he could do and it would show that one does not always have to grovel and serve to keep a job.
Whoever is dedicated to grovel will only gather contempt and more and more demands from those who master the cheated game.
I am not an artist-painter if what this means is to crawl and grovel before the picture merchants.
I think it is disgusting to grovel in this way to the Chinese dictatorship.
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.
Why this sacred cow before which Parliament, which has always denounced it, is meant to grovel?
It's all sort of sad and makes you wonder how much the 79-year-old elder statesman is willing to grovel for his job.
With this in mind, it is my plea that we should respect human rights rather than grovel to anybody.
People should not have to grovel for that money, which is what is happening and it is their own money.
Would-be partners had to grovel for deals and were only accepted on onerous terms, they said.
I didn't have to grovel for a handout from my parents anymore.
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.
Celebrity chefs give the impression that you are lucky to be able to eat their food, and that the privilege will be removed if you fail to behave properly or grovel sufficiently.
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.
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Examples from Classical Literature
But don't let him have her, don't let him be happy with her, while I grovel here in shame!
Promoters grovel at his feet, and offer heaps of scads, if he will condescend to meet some other bruising lads.
Do you think that I have followed you here to grovel at your feet for mere whim?
Ali says she was like a wild beast, but he twisted her wrist and made her grovel in the dust.
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.
The only ambition of this great powerful frame was to do nothing, to grovel in idleness and satiation from hour to hour.
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.
I told you before, that it did not beseem you to grovel in the dust.
The women shriek and swoon, grovel on the ground, and tear their hair.
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.
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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