groping

How To Use groping In A Sentence

• When I wrote, imprecisely, that domestic subsidies for agricultural commodities are equivalent to protective tariffs, I was groping at the notion that in both cases (1) domestic consumers/taxpayers pay a premium above the world price and (2) that foreign producers are discouraged from entering the domestic market. The Case for Free Trade, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
• She kept on struggling to loose herself, groping ineffectually at the deadfall that had entrapped her. SLEEP WHILE I SING
• Jake crawled onto the bed, groping blindly for the towel he always kept nearby for just these occasions.
• Seated in the theatre's lower gallery, I found myself distracted, not for the first time, by the endless gropings of the groundlings.
• Aren't you going to shout at me for groping you?
• This was a loser who thought he could get away with groping her on the court.
• Mr Dunglass headed towards it now, groping in his sporran for a large iron key. SANDS OF TIME
• “The crucial test for the solution of all these intricate problems which confront and challenge our ingenuity is the sheer and forceful application of those immutable laws which down the corridor of time have always guided the hand of man, groping as it were for some faint beacon of light for his hopes and aspirations.” McCain and Obama Court Hispanic Voters - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
• Aircraft wheels could yet again be groping tenuously for the asphalt of Kai Tak, Hong Kong's unlamented previous airport, if private pilots and other aviation enthusiasts get their way.
• Once the producers felt we had seen enough of that, the camera seemlessly segued into another grassy scene: one with prehistoric, upright, hairy Homo habilis digging holes and groping for food, circa two million years ago.