How To Use Groping In A Sentence
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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
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She kept on struggling to loose herself, groping ineffectually at the deadfall that had entrapped her.
SLEEP WHILE I SING
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Jake crawled onto the bed, groping blindly for the towel he always kept nearby for just these occasions.
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Seated in the theatre's lower gallery, I found myself distracted, not for the first time, by the endless gropings of the groundlings.
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Aren't you going to shout at me for groping you?
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This was a loser who thought he could get away with groping her on the court.
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Mr Dunglass headed towards it now, groping in his sporran for a large iron key.
SANDS OF TIME
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“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
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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.
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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.
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He seemed groping for a fresh beginning, then gave up suddenly all attempt at circuity and blurted it out much as though he had lived with the thought too long to endure it longer alone.
Then I'll Come Back to You
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With it, we are aware in much of the art of the day of a certain feverish tentativeness, groping, as it were, sometimes after a new spirit, sometimes after a repristination of the old in a modern form; but everywhere, I repeat, we see Life.
Modern Eloquence: Vol II, After-Dinner Speeches E-O
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You can call the groping a crime all you want, and you are technically correct, but you are contextually way out of whack.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Reversing DADT is “urgent” and “essential to our national security” because the policy “weakens” our military, expels “patriotic Americans” with “critical language skills,” and wastes years of training — all in “a time of war
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It is a dim collection of brick sheds groping for some symbolic significance.
Times, Sunday Times
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They continue their groping towards a constitutional settlement.
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I think as far as the Internet is concerned, we are groping towards the defining equilibrium between crime and defense.
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Where he and I would differ is that I think that the ability of government to devise a "solution" to the problem of future adjustments to the availability of educated labor from other countries is minimal compared to that of the decentralized trial-and-error groping mechanism of the market.
Economic Advisers Stoop to the Net, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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a groping effort to understand
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The blind went groping with the blind, the lame limped on together, and the maimed made gestures to each other with the only arm that remained; the sides of a considerable waterfall were crowded by the deaf, amongst whom were some from Pegu with ears uncommonly handsome and large, but were still less able to hear than the rest; nor were there wanting others in abundance with humpbacks, wenny necks, and even horns of an exquisite polish.
The History of the Caliph Vathek
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Such judgmental questions sound like that arch-conservative self-righteous man who every young woman in the vicinity knows is a groping ogler.
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It seems that many are groping for words that will cause people to pause and think again, not simply reject what is being said based on resistance to its form and style.
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But in groping for and moving into the sunlit plateaus of a better society we must ever bear in mind the necessity for adherence to one of those principles which are the underpinnings of society, a more ample and readily available justice.
Law Reform in a Changing Society
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And surmounting a higher ledge beyond this upthrust a huge dome of dull gold, Cyclopean, striking eyes and mind with something unhumanly alien, baffling; sending the mind groping, as though across the deserts of space, from some far-flung star, should fall upon us linked sounds, coherent certainly, meaningful surely, vaguely familiar -- yet never to be translated into any symbol or thought of our own particular planet.
The Moon Pool
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Yorick’s gospel, gropingly endeavoring to find an outlet for their own emotions which, in their opinion were characteristic of their arouser and stimulator, found through “Siegwart” a solution of their problem, a relief for their emotional excess.
Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century
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But I don't want you sneaking around, groping your boyfriend and thinking you're pulling off a fast one.
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Enveloped in a rack of old, heavy coats, he reached up blindly, groping in the air until his hand closed on a string.
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The Soviet government. although weakened, confused, and groping toward an uncertain future, was still intact.
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This was what Bertie Wooster would have called “a bit of a facer”; I was groping for an apt response when Clark pressed on.
The Pity of War
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That is an admirable statement of something I was groping blindly to try to express - thank you.
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Yes, he told himself, as he stood there, thoughtfully, as though bound to the spot by some Power not himself, -- yes, consciousness was like that little glass tube which electricians called a coherer, and all his vague impressions and mental-gropings were those disorderly, minute fragments of nickel and silver which only leaped into continuity and order under the shock and impact of those fleet and foreign electric waves, which floated from some sister consciousness aching with its undelivered messages.
Phantom Wires A Novel
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[_They fight on_ Julio's _side, and fight_ Octavio _out at t'other side: Enter_ Laura _and_ Sabina _at the Fore-door, which is the same where Sir_ Signal _stands: _ Tick. _groping up that way, finds Sir_ Sig. _just entring in; _ Laura _and_
The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume II
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Others were made by hitching suffixes to nouns, or by groping for roots, e. g., to deputize, to locate, to legislate, to infract, to compromit and to happify.
Chapter 2. The Beginnings of American. 3. New Words of English Material
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It tells the reader that by groping (aka assaulting) their wife, they're actually doing her a favor.
Feminist blogs
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Such information can swing the views of judges, who are sometimes groping in the dark.
Times, Sunday Times
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With her hand groping along the wall, she felt her heart racing in unreasoning panic.
MURDER MOVES IN
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'It's so ..., so ...' I was groping for the right word to describe it.
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It was too early to kill him, so I blinked rather blearily instead, groping around blindly for my glasses, and noticed two pairs of feet standing nearby.
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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
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The closest you get to interactive stalking is the train groping part of it.
RapeLay: The Response
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'It's so ..., so ...' I was groping for the right word to describe it.
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In groping for useful precedents, one could do worse than heed the tale of a man named Sherwood Rowland.
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Such information can swing the views of judges, who are sometimes groping in the dark.
Times, Sunday Times
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The girl told her the defendant had been touching her, interfering with her and groping her.
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And romantic it certainly was — the fog, like the grey shadow of infinite mystery, brooding over the whirling speck of earth; and men, mere motes of light and sparkle, cursed with an insane relish for work, riding their steeds of wood and steel through the heart of the mystery, groping their way blindly through the Unseen, and clamouring and clanging in confident speech the while their hearts are heavy with incertitude and fear.
Chapter 1
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I reached down for my sweatshirt, groping around for the pockets and then for the box of aspirin.
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He's a schlemiel, for one, someone who is constitutionally unequipped for the rigors of contemporary life, and whose benighted gropings would seem tragic, if only they were not so comic.
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Watching the scene, you may find yourself instinctively groping around for a seat belt.
Times, Sunday Times
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An elderly couple are groping their way down the steps to the front row.
Times, Sunday Times
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She greets visitors by groping her way along a wall towards the sound of their voices.
Times, Sunday Times
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She said that without surprise inspections, regulators would be groping in the dark.
Times, Sunday Times
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'It's so ..., so ...' I was groping for the right word to describe it.
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They started groping viciously and kissing savagely with loud, desperate smacks resonating into the dizzy evening air.
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They were practically groping him, grabbing his shoulders and tugging on his shirt, even as he turned to leave.
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Obviously grateful for that flash of candor, he started groping for the words that might express his incredulity.
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As I got closer, I saw that he was groping her and saying disgusting things.
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As long ago I had formulated untutored the _rationale_ of coitus, so now imagination, groping in the dark, conceived a fresh fillip for the appetite -- _cunnilinctus_.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion
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Walking down the dark hall, groping the walls, was Northeast Philly in all its unabashed intimacy.
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And because he knew not where he was, as also hoping to meete with his Mistresse; he went all about groping in the darke, to find either some staires or doore, whereby to get forth.
The Decameron
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Society is still coping with a gigantic change in the role of women, groping towards a stable balance between work and children.
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Avoid dark-alley groping and unladylike fumbling in the back of a cab," the guide says on the subject of one night stands.
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That's right, up to the shoulder, groping around for a grabbable part of the baby animal.
Reading, Writing, Cooking and Crafting: Center Schmenter
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He is always groping after wealth.
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Such information can swing the views of judges, who are sometimes groping in the dark.
Times, Sunday Times
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Cialikate and the man shared one last passionate, lusty kiss and a few more rounds of groping hands before pulling apart and rightening their clothing.
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She greets visitors by groping her way along a wall towards the sound of their voices.
Times, Sunday Times
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Salem Police Lt. Mike Green says the charges stem from complaints from two classmates who reported being victims of groping and frotteurism.
News for Richmond Times-Dispatch
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They continue their groping towards a constitutional settlement.
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Against her shoulder she could feel Erik's hand groping blindly in the darkness for a sign of her or Isabella.
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And all these efforts, valid as far as they go, leave us still groping for a basic conceptual approach that takes seriously the constitutional prohibition against uncompensated takings of private property.
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What am I doing out there rolling around and being thrown around and groping myself?
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A shop assistant accused of groping a customer as he measured her for a ‘perfect pair of jeans’ has been cleared of molesting her.
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She said that without surprise inspections, regulators would be groping in the dark.
Times, Sunday Times
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At least it looks better than the poorly-disguised groping you two are pulling off right now.
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He had been groping me all over up until that point.
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I pictured the Gulag fleeing Russia and oozing across the bottom of the Pacific, pseudopodia groping, to its new home in the Land of the Free.
Common ground
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It doesn't require any blind groping to find hidden body parts.
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She began to struggle free of Marco's embrace, groping around for anchorage.
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He stepped over a branch and recalled groping his way through the cemetery on that foggy night with Lexie when he'd been unable to see anything.
The Taste of Coins from Treasure Troves
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They face each other, and their signing, more excited than ever, turns into a ballet of arms and hands, a pantomime of two bodies groping their way toward oneness, and perhaps even a kind of secular prayer.
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The Soviet government. although weakened, confused, and groping toward an uncertain future, was still intact.
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She kept on struggling to loose herself, groping ineffectually at the deadfall that had entrapped her.
SLEEP WHILE I SING
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We left the joint soon after polishing off our free beers, not looking forward to once again having to push our way past a sea of groping ladyboys and crazy hookers again.
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But even then it was only to take to the woods on foot, groping through the night with your hand at one man's belt while another held you behind, trying for dear life not to thrash about like a mad bear in a cane-break, gripping your rifle and gritting your teeth against the pain of saddle-sore buttocks.
Isabelle
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However there will be times when groping is used as a weapon by a man against a man, by a woman against a woman and, arguably, by a woman against a man.
Harlangate Groping Meme
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Like dancers raising their arms in pleading ritualism, the scarlet tide splashed upward and drew back as gravity displayed evidence of past groping made in vain.
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Frank Murdock’s Review Forum
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I watch, fascinated as I can see him searching, desperately searching, groping for the words.
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The refugees were groping their way through the dark,(sentence dictionary) trying to reach safety.
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He parodied my groping stumble across the stage to the podium and gathered up the skirt to reveal hairy legs and bloomers.
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And as he reeled unseeing, smashing his great groping clutches through the air at me, I was in and short-dirked him thrice in belly, thigh, and buttock, than which I could reach no higher up the mighty frame of him.
Chapter 17
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Seated in the theatre's lower gallery, I found myself distracted, not for the first time, by the endless gropings of the groundlings.
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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
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He felt his way along the corridor, groping in the darkness for the door he knew would lead outside, facing the east gate.
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A crude trawl of press coverage in November last year revealed a different story of doctors reportedly bungling, blundering, or groping their way through headlines for almost every day of the month.
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Yet today, thousands of years after man first put this question to himself, he is still groping for an answer.
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Andrew Davies, the man who peps up Jane Austen for the telly, has been explaining why he has inserted lots of groping and grinding into a forthcoming film version of Sense and Sensibility – or Sex and Sexibility as it may have to be retitled.
May 2007
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She knew nothing of their subterranean, furtive, twilight life, the limbo through which, with their obliterated humanity, they moved as so many unhouseled ghosts, or the aching hunger in those hands that reached, groping tentatively out of their emptiness to seek some hope or stay.
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Groping for words, I tell her of my ongoing affection and respect, which has outlasted a cycle of hurts and mutual wariness.
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They continue their groping towards a constitutional settlement.
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The girl told her the defendant had been touching her, interfering with her and groping her.
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It is a dim collection of brick sheds groping for some symbolic significance.
Times, Sunday Times
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Lincoln was groping for answers, was a huge reader of the Bible, but not a member of a formal religious denomination, especially early in his career.
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Across the room a posse of young men, fresh from a football match, amused themselves by downing pints of lager in rapid succession and groping any woman who passed by.
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‘First base’ referred to embracing and kissing; ‘second base’ referred to groping and fondling; ‘third base’ referred to fellatio, usually known in polite conversation by the ambiguous term ‘oral sex’; and ‘home plate’ meant conception-mode intercourse, known familiarly as ‘going all the way.’
GENERATION S.L U.T.
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No, not stertorous," reflects our narrator three pages in, remembering his ailing father, "rather wheezeful, softer, gulping, an immeasurably beautiful strange ancient fish glopping glooping groping rasping for air, at air …" But in this quest for literary uniqueness, there is too much calculation and coldness; something of the "love" needed to make it a full-blooded work of art is missing.
Debut fiction: Quilt by Nicholas Royle; The Lost and Forgotten Languages of Shanghai by Ruiyan Xu; The World Beneath by Cate Kennedy
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But if the headline event was a bit of a yawner, it showed that the global powers-that-be are groping toward better understanding of the developing nations and their concerns about the dangers of globalization.
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And as he reeled unseeing, smashing his great groping clutches through the air at me, I was in and short-dirked him thrice in belly, thigh and buttock, than which I could reach no higher up the mighty frame of him.
The Jacket (Star-Rover)
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Hughes' image of the psychic journey Oedipus must undertake, groping his way toward the final and horrible truth of his own actions, is heavily laden with guilt.
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She shook her head despite his grip, her hands groping blindly for her knives only to gather more cuts and bruises from the broken bottles lying on the floor.
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She said that without surprise inspections, regulators would be groping in the dark.
Times, Sunday Times
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Meanwhile, Cole and Brennan administer an angiogram and she starts groping Cole and convulsing.
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Watching the scene, you may find yourself instinctively groping around for a seat belt.
Times, Sunday Times
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So it has determinate practical merit and groping meaning.
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I was groping in a fog, hoping for inspiration.
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Always an optimist, Dick easily outdid the immortal Micawber in his faith in something turning up just when things looked their blackest, and he had literally no thought for the morrow, until his hand, mechanically groping in his pocket for the wherewithal to fill his pipe, advised him of the fact that even his "baccy" was finished.
A Rip Van Winkle Of The Kalahari Seven Tales of South-West Africa
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He parodied my groping stumble across the stage to the podium and gathered up the skirt to reveal hairy legs and bloomers.
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It's up to the fuzz to put a stop to all the group groping.
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Failure to comply within 60 days may subject you to additional intimate screenings when boarding an airplane, groping, fondling, and intimate photography sessions in the Aeros Lounge, an ALL NEW Transportation Security Administration Playboy Co-Branded Airport Resort Public-Private Efficiency Partnership Initiative, cumming soon in an inter-modal transit center near you!
Discourse.net: I Should Have Flipped a Coin
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'It's so ..., so ...' I was groping for the right word to describe it.
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Part of what I have been groping towards articulating is that a stumbling block in contemplating/examining this stuff is the rather parochial way the English language handles the notions of 'mind' or 'consciousness'.
Another Look
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He didn't show anything on his face, but I knew he was groping for a cutting response.
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She greets visitors by groping her way along a wall towards the sound of their voices.
Times, Sunday Times
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Watching the scene, you may find yourself instinctively groping around for a seat belt.
Times, Sunday Times
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Mr. Flecha's arrest is the second tied to what police have described as a groping pattern in Brooklyn that dates back to March 20.
Groping Suspect Is Arrested
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Grabbing and groping commenced as the women began divesting the hapless men of their cumbersome armor and battle dress.
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‘Rhea, please,’ she called, groping for words, but finding none.
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And as he reeled unseeing, smashing his great groping clutches through the air at me, I was in and short-dirked him thrice in belly, thigh and buttock, than which
Chapter 17
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He didn't hear me, he was too busy chugging from his bottle of beer and groping the girl nearest him.
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His fingers closed around one slender wrist, groping, and discovered a feeble, fluttering pulse.
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He spoke rapidly, fervently, occasionally groping for the right word.
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And surmounting a higher ledge beyond this upthrust a huge dome of dull gold, Cyclopean, striking eyes and mind with something unhumanly alien, baffling; sending the mind groping, as though across the deserts of space, from some far-flung star, should fall upon us linked sounds, coherent certainly, meaningful surely, vaguely familiar — yet never to be translated into any symbol or thought of our own particular planet.
The Moon Pool
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A doctor accused of groping a woman patient during an eye examination yesterday admitted touching her breast.
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The Weasel, who may or may not be Valerie's father, lurks throughout the film, lecherously grinning and groping at the young girl.
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Rachel moved with a hoarse cry, groping blindly for support, trying to reach the sofas, shaking like a leaf.
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He parodied my groping stumble across the stage to the podium and gathered up the skirt to reveal hairy legs and bloomers.
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An orgy of groping and fumbling, and no sexual connotation left untouched.
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Along about midnight I was awakened by a man's hands groping me.
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An elderly couple are groping their way down the steps to the front row.
Times, Sunday Times
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A pederastic Santa Claus who's tired of groping "chicken.
George Heymont: Two Operas You'll Never See Performed at the Met!
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Two rounds later, though, Tyson was where he had never been before - on all fours, groping for his gumshield.
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From being servants of myths, heroes become puppets, overwhelmed by absurdity, groping for faith.
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Matthew slowed his pace down and reached out, blindly groping around for the cool touch of a doorknob.
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It's all real, you see – real gamekeeper's lodge, real groping around in "orchard", real flowers.
Aconite Acolyte
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The dentist returned to find me with my head between my knees, and one arm groping blindly for the stop button on the VCR.
