How To Use Grope In A Sentence

She groped for her key in her bag.
I groped for the gear stick, sobbing desperately as the car lurched forward.
He groped about for some answer that could be phrased in their language, letting his mind flicker from the modern electronic gadgets back to the old-time tide predicter. The Sky Is Falling
Hardships grope for years. If I can anticipate results.
She groped blindly for the light switch in the dark room.

a socialite's life † heidi montag and spencer pratt were busy spreading a message of 'grope' - ugh! popsugar † mischa barton is Friday October 24 2008 @ 7: 55AM Popbytes
Where are you going, Rex?" said Anna one gray morning when her father had set off in his carriage to the sessions, Mrs. Gascoigne with him, and she had observed that her brother had on his antigropelos, the utmost approach he possessed to a hunting equipment. Daniel Deronda
I groped through the passageway, and pushed open the worn door out into the kitchen yard.
My hand groped for the door handle.
Because the insectan sandgropers spend virtually their whole lives underground, they have been difficult subjects for study and little was known about their biology until recently.
He twisted and groped one-handed behind the cantle of his saddle for his hunting-bow and quiver, found them and fumbled them loose.
(#2: The giant ape is defeated after the woman he groped and stalked wins a multi-million dollar harassment suit.) SF Tidbits for 7/5/08
Suddenly remembering, she groped for the piece of card with the rector 's prayer. HIDING FROM THE LIGHT
Unable to see out the operator inside was responsible for a few unintentional gropes during rehearsals!
But let me make one comment about what's just happened in response to what you called grope-gate, Larry. CNN Transcript Oct 7, 2003
For a week after that visit her lights had failed to go on — darkness brooded out into the areaway, seemed to grope blindly in at his expectant, uncurtained window. Tales of the Jazz Age
He made some sexual advances at the woman in his office and groped her repeatedly
He groped in his back pocket and handed me his schedule.
The incident was not the only thing to affect the pair, with 27-year-old Kate - who had earlier been seen sitting on Alexander's shoulders in the crowd - getting upset with a female festivalgoer who approached hunky Alexander and "groped" him. The Earth Times Online Newspaper
He listened patiently and I groped for the words.
Blearily I pulled on my dressing gown and groped my way to the front door, making ready to have a go at somebody for having the audacity to come a-calling so early on a Sunday morning, but there was nobody there.
We are sailing due westward and the sun, yet two hours high, is blazoning a fiery glory on the sea that spreads and gleams like some broad, jeweled trail, to where the blue and distant shadow-land lifts its carven front aloft, leaving, as it gropes, shades of shadows beyond. DARKWATER
Dennis groped his greedy hands over the box of food that Adrian had kept so securely beside him.
Provide specialist technical support to the Aluminum Grope, customers and contract manufacturers.
Mieville gropes for a prose style in the opening hundred pages or so, meaning that the opening part of the book is delivered in short, staccato bursts, one moment enjoyable, the next annoyingly obtuse to the point of turgidness. Kraken by China Mieville
Something, for example, is astir in Latin America which gives an unanticipated scope for hope even as the Middle East continues to blindly grope its way towards partnership with Asia.
To disfranchise women is deliberately to turn from knowledge and grope in ignorance. DARKWATER
I groped for something to do or say. Christianity Today
It quickly necessitated figuring out how to "grope" myself discretely in public! Walking the walk, talking the talk: Security of mind
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.
From the lede of this article:A policewoman today told how the former vice-master of a Cambridge college "groped" her while making a "pervy Benny Hill noise" after inviting her to his room for gin and tonics. Best Quote Ever
I groped for encouraging words, I fumbled for motivational encouragement, but the words just refused to be found.
We groped around in the darkness.
Between the slow ticking of the cogs I listened jealously for foreign sounds, and heard at length a gentle dripping across the breadth of the boathouse; that was the last of the "portcullis," as Raffles called it, rising out of the river; indeed, I could now see the difference in the stretch of stream underneath, for the open end of the boathouse was much less dark than mine; and when the faint band of reflected starlight had broadened as I thought enough, I ceased winding and groped my way down the steps into the boat. Mr. Justice Raffles
With his left hand he groped for the knob, turned it, and pulled the door open.
Her mother groped for the back of the chair, her eyes blind with tears.
They illuminate the thoughts for which we only grope.
Should we not commemorate in some fashion a young man who worked here among our ancestors and who groped his way through the darkness of the unknown and lit a lamp along the path?
Clambering over the precious pile in the middle, they crouched low on the foreside of the mast and groped under the half-deck. Nostromo: a Tale of the Seaboard
I groggily got out of bed and groped my way to the medicine chest.
They walked along the slippery wooden deck to the raised rear section of the ship, entered the door the dwarf had taken, and groped their way through the dark to the rear of the ship.
The warriors made quite a fuss over Sara as she moved among them, making boozy offers and launching flagrant gropes.
But by now, ending a number with a dank, dark, ambi-sexual, omnisexual group grope is so passé it's turning up in music videos.
In the light of this law, _were any one mad enough to grope_, he might come to the conclusion that the first man (or race of men) was anything but a grandee in mind, person, or estate; and that our seemingly puzzled but at last most wonder-working mother, ycleped The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
I was surprised as I felt the sudden grope of two hands upon my rear.
We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noon day as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men.
We are sailing due westward and the sun, yet two hours high, is blazoning a fiery glory on the sea that spreads and gleams like some broad, jeweled trail, to where the blue and distant shadow-land lifts its carven front aloft, leaving, as it gropes, shades of shadows beyond. DARKWATER
Rudely puffed the winds of heaven; roguishly clomb up the all-destructive urchin; and, lo! in a moment night re-established her void empire, and the cit groped along the wall, suppered but bedless, occult from guidance, and sorrily wading in the kennels. Virginibus Puerisque and other papers
Churchill dived and groped in three feet of water for the gripsack. Trust
What of the gropes, the bullying, the sadistic humiliations he said he was responsible for?
"Run, " says Tom, but the gang breaks into pursuit while Tom, trying to hold the pace, gropes in his backpack.
When he regained consciousness, it was dark, and he groped his way down to the village, where a doctor dressed twenty separate wounds that he had suffered in the fall.
Jacob Welse was there now, and his grub-stores; so they wintered in the frost and groped in the frozen muck for gold. CHAPTER 5
She groped for his keys in the dark
The poplar trembles before the blast, flutters, struggles wildly, dishevels its foliage, gropes around with its feeblest branches, and hisses as in impotent passion. Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers
And we already know that it was one of the most astonishingly UGLY hoaxes in recent American politics: Black "Obama supporter" robs, gropes and then "carves" a "B" for Barack backwards on the face of a Tareyton ad fake McCain staffer HS Blog - Homeschool Blog
Yet I think his mind groped further, towards what he could not see, the body's obscure, inalterable dream of mutuality. THE BIRTHDAY OF THE WORLD
Now we groped our way by flashlight up deeply weathered steps to the top of the tallest pyramid.
Our arguments would grope in the dark. The Times Literary Supplement
From USA Today: "To hear Premiere magazine tell it, Arnold Schwarzenegger is an uncouth boor who frequently groped women and engaged in extramarital liaisons. Boing Boing: February 11, 2001 - February 17, 2001 Archives
Before then, dope smoke and the fast grope made a trip to the seashore in March seem acceptable.
He snatched up the receiver and his free hand groped for the switch on the bedside lamp.
I had seen it before on the faces of Alzheimer's sufferers, as they groped blindly for something they knew they should remember but couldn't quite grasp.
He snatched up the receiver and his free hand groped for the switch on the bedside lamp.
She made a face as she groped under the black hen, which glared and clucked at her but yielded a warm, brown egg.
The building was - Liz groped for a decent word - compact.
She groped her way back to her cell, where she dragged out the damp-smelling futons and piled on a heavy wad of assorted bedding.
When I crawl into my bag, a sharp object pricks my thigh and I grope after it: pinecone.
I'm sorry to hear that Swan - at least you're not in the east side of Toronto (before the DVP, not after) so theoretically I should have been robbed once in the 5 months I've been in this city (I've been groped by a old smelly drunk dude getting off a streetcar - does that count?). * knocks on wood to not get robbed* MetaChat
He kneeled down, looking under the seat, and he groped blindly for the pen, stretching to get it.
It is true, Emperor, that there is no description or caste for one who would be a nursemaid to'to" He groped for a tactful description, and Skan supplied him with an untactful one. The White Gryphon
The entire chain of events leading up to the "grope" was done with some humor involved. SF Tidbits for 9/4/06
They were red and Katrina's mind groped for the word.
Grope a boy, throw a party and pass round a doobie.
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.
Millions of tiny polyps have emerged from their limestone cells to stretch out their minuscule arms and grope for food.
With his left hand he groped for the knob, turned it, and pulled the door open.
Our arguments would grope in the dark. The Times Literary Supplement
He must still grope around and do his best. Modern Literatures of the Non-Western World: Where the Waters Are Born
Massa gave contradictory explanations for his behavior, acknowledging he groped and tickled a staffer in a nonsexual way and wrestled with others at his 50th birthday party, but then denying any groping occurred. Chris Lee Shirtless Photo Controversy Prompt Congressman To Resign
Shivering in the chilly air, she groped across to the light switch.
After a few gropes, and more kissing, I made my excuses and left.
Rather than accepting her offered hand, the lad felt for the support beam and groped his way back to his feet.
Each and every one is an ambassador for the blue groper, for the great cuttlefish, for the coral reefs, for the weedy sea dragons of the sort that I met personally yesterday, diving off Manly, and getting to see some of your treasures.
He groped me as I was going to the bar.
He gropes again in his pocket and finds his girlfriend’s eyeliner.
Provide specialist technical support to the Aluminum Grope, customers and contract manufacturers.
XD my younger sister and i are gonna pick her up straight after school. this time we're gonna brave all obstacles, no matter what, to get to the airport hehe. thank goodness chem mock is during sch hours. speaking of which i havent studied anything.sigh. good luck to me. and i think a math was hard. at least i managed to do erm a few questions? couldnt prove the identity haha and all us sec fours are gonna get it from charissa on thurs. - _ - i'd better get prepared. (bring earmuffs) i think i told the whole world that i groped dawn (not physically!) * gropes dawn* = D oh yeah dawn! Tamale-loco Diary Entry
As I spoke I groped through all my pockets until, fortuitously I found a single, coin, dredged it out and passed it over. 2009 July « Official Harry Harrison News Blog
Her legs were in a ridiculous bunch at the edge of her bed, while her arms groped blindly for a sturdy surface to brace her body.
I groped for something to do or say. Christianity Today
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?
She went off into the throng of people being groped on the dance floor.
When we were in the backseat of his car, we began kissing lustfully and our hands groped one another's bodies, in all the right places.
She groped blindly for the door handle.
Feeling cranky all over again, Matthew stood up abruptly and groped his way to the kitchen.
He groped for an armful of wood and hastened back into the room.
He groped blindly for a kerchief, for the sheet, the pillow, anything to smother the noise. HIDING FROM THE LIGHT
He'd extend his left hand, and we would grope a bit, obliquely, cater-cornered, as if we were about to begin a minuet. Learning To Love Dole
She groped for her glasses on the bedside table.
She groped in the pocket of her shorts.
The poplar trembles before the blast, flutters, struggles wildly, dishevels its foliage, gropes around with its feeble branches, and hisses as in impotent passion. Earth as Modified by Human Action, The~ Chapter 03 (historical)
He must still grope around and do his best. Modern Literatures of the Non-Western World: Where the Waters Are Born
According to the scientists, who carried out the studies, the octopus gropes potential partners with what they term a ‘specially modified arm’ to establish the sex of the partner.
Games that were danced through last season with verve and energy now feel laborious, as players grope for the glitter that once trailed behind them. Times, Sunday Times
And that meant he could have a good grope in the dark.
Her hands groped along the floor in front of her and she attempted to pull her painful, gasping body along.
The stream fell away beneath me, and I clambered and groped my way down a wet and slippery rock face, nearly falling.
She groped for a simple word to express a simple idea.
Then, smiling with glee, she began to grope in her bag for the camcorder. HIDING FROM THE LIGHT
I reach down to the floor and grope around for my phone.
Bunbury groped in his breast pocket for his wallet.
Ally groped steadily towards the door.
She groped through her pile of dirty clothes for her battered gym shoes and wrenched them on forcefully.
You dare not open your eyes but must grope your way about as if blindfolded. Times, Sunday Times
Just before dinner time I donned a becoming gown to chirk up my courage, groped my way down the long, dim stairs, and telephoned to Von Gerhard. Dawn O'Hara, the Girl Who Laughed
They groped us, felt us up and thrust their pelvic regions into our backsides.
Already, as he groped his way along through the darkness and the fetid air, he felt strong temptation to self-accusation. IN LOVE AND WAR
His mind groped to make the connection
She groped for the railing to steady her as she fell.
By all accounts, his under-the-table gropes and nightclub come-ons had women fleeing in their droves.
We groped our way along the dark corridor.
With his left hand he groped for the knob, turned it, and pulled the door open.
When you're not sure about the exact structure of the page, though, it's better to grope blindly through all the content with a minimum of assumptions.
He groped his way in the dark.
She groped blindly for the light switch in the dark room.
In this fashion we "groped" our way with considerable rapidity. The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness
Only now, after a season of raised eyebrows, are Melburnians getting wise to the Sandgropers' in-joke, and have now added to the challenge.
I don't want to date someone who has to let people grope him.
It didn't take long, however, for the ringing to resemble a chainsaw splitting through my head, so I blindly groped under my bed for the cordless.
How does a TSA grope compare to autocannibalism or being re-raped? Jay Blumenkopf: What's to Win in Afghanistan?
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.
I groped for the light switch.
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.
As instructed, he turned off the headlights and slowly groped his way through the icy ruts, squinting to see by the parking lights' feeble orange glow.
Aronchick was one of about 35 Clinton and Obama insiders who attended a dinner last week in Washington aimed at what he characterized as helping the two sides "grope towards unity. Follow the Democratic Rules Committee meeting online
What mathematical model could account for the happily married successful man risking marriage and career for a meaningless drunken grope with the office tart at the Christmas party?
We stood at the public bar and demanded schooners, copping the jeers, sexual jibes and gropes of the regulars.
How funny is that - another Sandgroper Western Australian right above where I was about to comment! Tobacco Farmers and Clotheslines - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com
The great Greek grope growers grow great Greek grapes.
He groped out blindly and grasped one of the dog's front legs.
In such international -- or, I should say, interparochial -- differences, the nearest we can come towards understanding is to appreciate the cloud of ambiguity in which all parties grope -- A Footnote to History Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa
Our arguments would grope in the dark. The Times Literary Supplement
He groaned inwardly, and began to grope along his side table, trying to find the receiver.
Egyptian women are sexually harassed to an astonishing degree, groped, ogled, followed by catcalls, behavior that no law forbids. Egypt women stand for equality in the square
He would try to grope her breasts and put his hand up her skirt.
As the drink took over the authorities later heard that he 'groped' the 17 year-old daughter of rugby league legend Wayne Pearce. Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
Yet I think his mind groped further, towards what he could not see, the body's obscure, inalterable dream of mutuality. THE BIRTHDAY OF THE WORLD
This morning, Ike Davis phoned in to WFAN and was asked about being 'groped' by Fernando Tatis, who, along with several other players, caught him flipping over the railing catching the final out of last night's game: MetsBlog.com
The huge Queensland groper is Dom, after the aquarist who trapped it.
You dare not open your eyes but must grope your way about as if blindfolded. Times, Sunday Times
Underscoring that point, two West Australian backbenchers, Wilson Tuckey and Dennis Jensen, had inadvertently drafted a motion that would have tipped out Turnbull, and his deputy - their mate and fellow Sandgroper Julie Bishop - a Keystone Cops mistake that took time to correct. Undefined
So government needs to know those sorts of things so they can manage the habitats properly, so we can preserve something like the blue groper, which is after all the State fish of New South Wales.
David and I are often to be found by our friends having a quick grope, like a couple of teenagers.
Unfortunately, blue gropers and crayfish, both popular species for eating, prey on one such creature, sea urchins.
She said he was a ‘lecherous’ manager, with a reputation as a serial groper.
The 57-year-old Bennett acknowledges he "groped" the girl, according to the station, citing Latest Articles
The shelter inside was totally dark and one had to grope to find a place to sit on the backless wooden forms.
But the ‘brushes’ became definite gropes and feels.
He snatched up the receiver and his free hand groped for the switch on the bedside lamp.
Since this bozo is a fan of the former co-president (hillary). .who was fully informed on intell along with the serial groper. .all had agreed that Saddam was a threat ... its just that bill was more interested in bj's and campaign mooey from communist china than in protecting our country. Sound Politics: "Only Fools Support Bush's Escalation"
Later in his car while laughing about the incident, I felt safe to "grope" myself and repay my debt. Walking the walk, talking the talk: Security of mind
He groped in the refrigerator for a beer, and roamed the house, checking his doors and windows.
She groped through the darkness towards the doors.
The trees that stood around us seemed to grope around, like evil spirits searching for souls.
Since this bozo is a fan of the former co-president (hillary). .who was fully informed on intell along with the serial groper. .all had agreed that Saddam was a threat ... its just that bill was more interested in bj's and campaign mooey from communist china than in protecting our country. Sound Politics: "Only Fools Support Bush's Escalation"
And then be! 'slept with that creepy marketing director, Rick - or rather, we grope& never needed the condom lying on the nightstand, because "the big bruiser," as my date called his flaccid penis, went on strike, something it had never done, he assured me, ever. The secret sense
Kommissie die volgende drie konsepte voor: 'n deur die hof aangestelde kommissaris om getuienis in te samel en vastellings te maak ten aansien van individuele geskille in' n gropesgeding; 'n ANC Daily News Briefing
Thus, in a whole imbroglio of Capabilities, we go stupidly groping about, to grope which is ours, and often clutch the wrong one: in this mad work must several years of our small term be spent, till the purblind Youth, by practice, acquire notions of distance, and become a seeing Man. Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History
The staging of scenes in which the lights go out - actually up - and the actors grope around on stage while the audience can see every move could be silly, but works brilliantly.
Whirling, she groped her way through the hotel's revolving side door.
He groped around in the dark for his other sock.
I groped my way out again as fast as possible, heedless of idols and all other antiquities, seized a cigarito from the hand of the astonished prefect, who was wisely smoking at the entrance, lighted it, and inhaled the smoke, which seemed more fragrant than violets, after that stifling and most unearthly odour. Life in Mexico, During a Residence of Two Years in That Country
Ally groped steadily towards the door.
Anywho, after that disaster was all said and done, I groped my way downstairs.
Like I said before, you will see a lot of very friendly blue gropers, mados, goatfish, stingrays and bullseyes.
En el municipio de Somotillo, comarca el caimito, el señor Reynaldo Martínez, se ha dedicado la mayor parte de su viada al desarrollo de actividades agropecuarias dentro de las cuales se destacan la crianza de ganado tanto mayor y menor especies como ganado bobino, porcino y aviar también establece cultivos como maíz, ajonjolí y sorgo dichas actividades las realiza con su esposa y nieto que tiene a cargo en una jornada de 6 a 2 de la tarde, con el crédito solicitado será empleado en la compra de tres vacas paridas las que garantizaran parte de su alimentos para su hogar, así como también la mejora y aumento de su hato ganadero y de esta manera mejorar su condición social. Kiva Loans
Mieville gropes for a prose style in the opening hundred pages or so, meaning that the opening part of the book is delivered in short, staccato bursts, one moment enjoyable, the next annoyingly obtuse to the point of turgidness. Kraken by China Mieville
I groped my way across the pitch-black stage.
He must still grope around and do his best. Modern Literatures of the Non-Western World: Where the Waters Are Born
Stumbling out of bed, I groped blindly in the darkness for the light switch, flicked it on, and sleepily rubbed gritty, irritating gunk out of my aching eyes.
By the looks of things, the GOP jump right in blindly and then grope around for a necessary result. Afghanistan decision to come within days, White House says
You dare not open your eyes but must grope your way about as if blindfolded. Times, Sunday Times
gropes among cloudy issues toward a feeble conclusion
Despite his Sandgroper heritage, Shipperd admits to not knowing much about Saturday's venue, Hands Oval. Sportal.com.au - Latest News Headlines
But there are limits: the grope must take place in a semi-private cubicle, in a strip club, and can't involve touching genitals.
She groped blindly for the door handle.
I groped for something to do or say. Christianity Today
Fighting Falcon aircraft during Exercise Sandgroper '82. % lt; table WN.com - Business News
I blindly grope in my wife's handbag for her car keys. The Sun
A half smile flitted over the pale face, the other hand groped at the breast of his blue shirt and slowly drew forth a packet, stained and dripping with the blood that welled slowly from a shothole in the broad white breast. Found in the Philippines The Story of a Woman's Letters
Everyone is happy when state under-18s teammate Brad Sheppard is selected by West Coast at No. 7 and fellow Sandgroper Kane Lucas is sent to Carlton shortly after. AFL Latest News
Then, smiling with glee, she began to grope in her bag for the camcorder. HIDING FROM THE LIGHT
The moon was hidden behind thick black clouds and she had to grope her way around the unfamiliar surroundings.
As film studies grope beyond auteurism towards a greater recognition of the importance of collaboration and versatility, their contribution might be more generously acknowledged.
Neither my dad nor Chad said anything while I carefully groped my way upstairs.
Bunbury groped in his breast pocket for his wallet.
He groped behind him for the kit and pulled out a disinfectant cloth, gently wiping at the wound.
Harrison's new collection, "The Farmer's Daughter" - a title redolent of Merle Haggard or off-color barroom jokes or both, depending on your referents - contains three stories that feature, among their sprawling casts, several lusty adolescent boys (including one with a clubfoot and one who's a werewolf); an aged rancher, who, at 73, on his "last conscious day" of life, gingerly gropes a NYT > Home Page
But then, after being released and taken to the hospital, she recanted to a police officer -- saying that she had not been raped but rather "groped" by some of the players. Doubts About Duke

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