How To Use Grovel In A Sentence

The dog grovelled before his master when he saw the whip.
No doubt trying for an audience with Gabriel Androctusa chance to grovel and bootlick his way into squirehood. Virginity
I don't want to sound like a begging, grovelling idiot, but I am genuinely in pain knowing that I cant go.
You will just have to grovel to the bank manager for a loan.
In yet another print, he grovels avariciously for a pittance at the feet of Prime Minister Pitt as the latter grinds John Bull through a mincing machine to produce gold coins.

I didn't have to grovel for a handout from my parents anymore.
Over to the left I saw an unhappy little urchin, hardly a rag covering his shivering, bleeding body, grovelling piteously in the snow, while his blind and goitrous mother did her best at gathering firewood with a hatchet. Across China on Foot
And what better use can we find for those degenerates who grovel in your gutters, or sell themselves for money? NIGHT SISTERS
All right, Charles, you don't have to grovel on all fours! ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
The dog groveled before his master when he saw the whip.
White Fang crawled slowly, cringing and grovelling in the abjectness of his abasement and submission. The Trail of the Gods
Grovelling is certainly no way to win employment—or at least no way to win employment for an organisation that I would want to work for.
Appeasement and compromise will turn enemies into friends, if groveling and self-abasement do not first drive friends into the enemy camp. Farewell to America's China Station
As a depiction of Labor policy, it represents one of the more sniveling grovels in recent memory.
I bet all the grovelling begins all over again next week.
They sent a grovelling email to the couple begging for forgiveness.
He gasped as he saw her, and fell to the ground, groveling at her feet, pleading with her.
After struggling for months, it dawned on me that I needed to grovel. She was as important to the department as the snot-nosed junior banker giving her the work.
I guess most of the Negroes in that area were kind of groveling creatures, you know. Oral History Interview with Modjeska Simkins, July 28, 1976. Interview G-0056-2. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
I knocked over the bowl with all the beads in it and spent fifteen minutes grovelling on my hands and knees on the living room carpet painstakingly picking them up again.
The Single Instance Storage Groveler service has been stopped.
He fell and grovelled in agony as the driver lashed him repeatedly about the head and body.
The fact is he doesn't have to 'grovel' to anyone. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
The trial came off in June of '91, and it's one of the regrets of my life that I was not present, if only to see stout Bertie in the witness-box, squirming under the inquisition of saucy jurors who didn't know their place, unlike the judge and counsel who grovelled to him something servile, and did everything but tote him in and out of court in a palankeen. Watershed
ÂSome stalwart grad student could write quite a paper on the undertones and resonances of a paragraph like this one: "Through British veins runs the poisonous fake idealism of "human rights" and "sensitivity," of happy-clappy multicultural groveling and sick, weak, deracinated moral universalism -- the rotten fruit of a debased, sentimentalized Christianity. Richard (RJ) Eskow: England's Ashes - America's Future?
Some preemptive grovelling can go a long way.
So much he told the seekers in few words; and then while they grovelled on the earth and wept for pure joy, whereas the sun was down and it was beginning to grow dusk, he went and looked around soberly to see if he might find water and any kind of victual; and presently a little down the hillside he came upon a place where a spring came gushing up out of the earth and ran down toward the plain; and about it was green grass growing plentifully, and a little thicket of bramble and wilding fruit-trees. The Story of the Glittering Plain; or, the land of Living Men
I do love a bit of gardening, though, and a raised border is much easier for me to get to than grovelling at ground level.
Some of you remember how stubbornly they fought their machine-guns in the last war, but how they whined "Kamerad" and grovelled when you got at them. Close to the War
He dropped the shell and grovelled on the floor, inhaling carpet dust as he searched under the bed. A ROOMFUL OF BIRDS - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES 1990
The dog groveled before his master when he saw the whip.
But while most of the defendants there were grovellers and bootlickers, he was not.
We are not quite sure just how much grovelling it is going to take to get Maria to forgive him.
We are not quite sure just how much grovelling it is going to take to get Maria to forgive him.
Incidentally, the ancient Maya had a fairly advanced understanding of astronomy - so there's some question as to whether they would have grovelled in front an eclipse.
We resolved to show him and everyone else that the days for grovelling were over.
Personally, I'm wondering just how much he paid for the gross of grovelling apologies he's been using like there's no tomorrow…
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.
The dog groveled before his master when he saw the whip.
The same threat would apply to ambassadors from other nations that treat Israel similarly, he added - echoing the attitude of Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, who has instructed Israeli diplomats not to "grovel" before their host countries. The Seattle Times
Next time you communicate with your friend, express deep remorse and offer a groveling apology.
Then he began to grovel and wail, " I deserve to die!
If they want me to get down and grovel on the floor, no.
She was grovelling around on the floor, looking for her contact lens.
She was grovelling around on the floor, looking for her contact lens.
All the fawning and grovelling that goes on is very distasteful.
The duo had to offer grovelling apologies after the shameful end to the match.
Okay, that's enough of the grovelling—can I have your spare ticket please, Kate?
All right, Charles, you don't have to grovel on all fours! ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
And what better use can we find for those degenerates who grovel in your gutters, or sell themselves for money? NIGHT SISTERS
His stolid instinctive conservatism grovels before the tyrant rule of routine, despite that turbulent and licentious independence which ever suggests revolt against the ruler: his mental torpidity, founded upon physical indolence, renders immediate action and all manner of exertion distasteful: his conscious weakness shows itself in overweening arrogance and intolerance. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Why are you groveling in the dirt? Have you lost something?
If the rulers of other countries want to grovel, that is their privilege, but I don't want my country groveling before anyone. Propeller Most Popular Stories
She saw him grovel on the floor, begging for mercy.
The same threat would apply to ambassadors from other nations that treat Israel similarly, he added -- echoing the attitude of Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, who has instructed Israeli diplomats not to "grovel" before their host countries. TODAY'S ZAMAN :: News
I think Disco and Forastero are the best Mod's on this site (* grovel grovel, creep, creep*) Army Rumour Service
He was not even gracious enough to apologise and did not do so until some time later when it became expedient, in terms of his public image, to offer a grudging and less than grovelling apology.
At first Bâtard would crowd himself into the smallest possible space, grovelling close to the floor; but as the music came nearer and nearer, he was forced to uprear, his back jammed into the logs, his fore legs fanning the air as though to beat off the rippling waves of sound. BÂTARD
What John McCain offer is a weak ineffective leader who has to grovel for political contributions. McCain Campaign Is Returning Donations - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
How much more grovelling do we have to do for bad things done in our name?
that is, if you were a masochistic type who enjoyed grovelling on the floorboards and breathing diesel fumes in a rolling seaway. CORMORANT
Since the story first emerged last week, both of them have issued grovelling statements about their affair.
Then they lashed together many sad strokes, and traced and traversed now backward, now sideling, hurtling together like two boars, and that same time they fell both grovelling to the earth. Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table
An employee who forgot their password to log in to the corporate network would probably get a withering look from the support staff as they grovelled to have it reset.
Okay, that's enough of the grovelling—can I have your spare ticket please, Kate?
Alan Hansen's Match of the Day blunder in racism row Alan Hansen is forced to make a grovelling apology after using the word "coloured" as he debated racism in football on Match Of The Day Spurs fans also on trial at White Hart Lane John Terry's criminal charge is a long way from reaching judgement but that won't stop wags in the terraces from pronouncing their own... Evening Standard - Home
She says there was a lot of grovelling to lure her back to the competition.
I begged and groveled and groveled and begged.
Manager : Ah! The famous Monsieur poirot. I grovel in mortification, I grovel !
She deserved to grovel, but since that didn't appear to be working, she reverted to being the world-weary, spoiled heiress. THIS HEART OF MINE
The spectacle of an entire nation groveling in contentment is an infuriating thing. Mark Twain in The Atlantic
I find your grovelling sycophancy rather disgusting and a bit creepy.
Why are you groveling in the dirt? Have you lost something?
* At one level theres an easy reply to the accusations of grovelling, which is that Galloway took the decision to meet Saddam because he felt it could strengthen the chance for peace, and then had to follow the required degree of courtesy. What's Going On
How much more grovelling do we have to do for bad things done in our name?
They groveled to the females before every song and it was just a lame rock performance.
Of course, I meant that you should have grovelled far more at Andrea's feet, and made far more clear your ‘Junior Partner’ status.
They're not servile and grovelling like the English are.
After an hour his back was aching, his hands dabbled, his brow beaded, while the night-winds blew, the light now was commoved, and now glowed a steady red; and still he grovelled. The Lord of the Sea
Wolf Larsen it was, always Wolf Larsen, enslaver and tormentor of men, a male Circe and these his swine, suffering brutes that grovelled before him and revolted only in drunkenness and in secrecy. Chapter 26
ÂSome stalwart grad student could write quite a paper on the undertones and resonances of a paragraph like this one: "Through British veins runs the poisonous fake idealism of "human rights" and "sensitivity," of happy-clappy multicultural groveling and sick, weak, deracinated moral universalism -- the rotten fruit of a debased, sentimentalized Christianity. Richard (RJ) Eskow: England's Ashes - America's Future?
Pete went on a long grovelling campaign and the two made up during a romantic spa weekend.
Total grovelling obeisance to Israel is a speciality, with much contempt for the Palestinians and support for Israel as they eviscerated Gazan children, and a manic scheme of extreme toadyish inventiveness, to attempt to arraign Ahmadinejad before the ICC for 'incitement to genocide' over his non-existent calls to 'wipe Israel off the map'. Dissident Voice
I had to really grovel to the bank manager to get a loan.
I bet all the grovelling begins all over again next week.
He sent a grovelling note of apology.
The company offered a grovelling apology via a blog post today and explained the issue.
After much grovelling, they were allowed to perform the song.
Ed tried to wriggle and in the end started grovelling to Neil, that he was probably the best informed political journalist on the economy.
She deserved to grovel, but since that didn't appear to be working, she reverted to being the world-weary, spoiled heiress. THIS HEART OF MINE
Historically for blacks, this kind of groveling is normally referred to as "Uncle Tommish" - or "Aunt Jemimaism. Flip-flopping on Obama
There was no strength left for crawling or grovelling, let alone swimming.
It was the usual routine, after one of their spats Antony would go in angry at her, and come out groveling at her feet to take him back.
She says there was a lot of grovelling to lure her back to the competition.
Imagine that as the guy with the Will-Work-4-Food sign grovels as the freeway offramp, he's rewarded not with some middle-class cheapskate's Starbucks change, but with a small diamond! Doug Molitor: Buddy, Can You Spare a Diamond?
In this respect he is indeed just like her: courageous and unbending when facing up to the weak, the workers and the poor; grovelling and sycophantic to the rich, the strong and the powerful.
You see where my pride is gone; remember I plead as a suppliant, a beggar — though one who may be one day a prince, a king! ay, and a prince now, a very Lucifer of pride to all except to you; to you a wretch who grovels at your feet, and cries, ‘Have mercy on me, on my loneliness, my homelessness, my friendlessness.’ Westward Ho!
The dog grovelled before his master when he saw the whip.
Most ministers have to put up a convincing, grovelling case in the Budget round to get their cause across the line.
And grief and joy, nor can the groveling mine In the dark dungeon of the limbs confin Aflert the native Ikies, or own its heavenly Nor eling mine, t ifin'd, I ivenly kind. The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical
The star has forgiven theatre him for heckling her during a play after he wrote a grovelling letter of apology.
The dog grovelled before his master when he saw the whip.
I don't grovel to anybody.
There is something barbaric, I suppose, in the British customs still -- something that reminds one of their ancient condition when the Romans conquered them -- when their supreme idea of enjoyment was to have an ox roasted whole before them while they drank "wassail" till they groveled under their own tables in a worse condition than overfed swine. Vendetta: a story of one forgotten
She said it was ridiculous that Church leaders appeared to be 'grovelling' to a secular agenda. Of course, I could be wrong...
Next time you communicate with your friend, express deep remorse and offer a groveling apology.Sentence dictionary
All the fawning and grovelling that goes on is very distasteful.
He has a lot of grovelling to do to the fans.
He sent a grovelling note of apology.
The duo had to offer grovelling apologies after the shameful end to the match.
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.
I am expecting a grovelling one over hotdogs on the 4th July as he cosies up to Syrian and Venezualan officials. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
However, it sometimes seems as though a mere public reconsideration is not enough: we instead demand an abject, groveling apology and a confession that those who opposed the war were right about every last thing.
The news comes out just two days after Weiner, a rising star within the Democratic party, made a grovelling televised apology in which he admitted he had sent semi-clad photographs of himself to at least six different women, some of which had occurred after his marriage. Anthony Weiner's wife Huma Abedin reportedly pregnant
The public also need to be immunised against propaganda from Muslims and their grovelling dhimmis by being made aware of taqiyya holy deception - the sacred Muslim practice of lying to further the cause of Islam . Why I support Israel.
He refers back to the Fish era as if in awe, and introduces the other Marillionauts with grovelling reverence.
Pete went on a long grovelling campaign and the two made up during a romantic spa weekend.
She should be groveling over her chosen incompetence and engaging in remedial studies, and nobody should be giving her the slightest respect until she does that. bob h Says: Matthew Yglesias » Question for Stimuskeptics
I remembered how, as a younger man, I would never have groveled or whined for any reason.
The great thing about all of this religious or "culty" guff, is that all the sheeple groveling in their steeple, they all have "opinions" about what their deity is "saying" and righteously so, but the deity in the last few thousands of years of "omnipotence", has never once put in a personal appearance. Computerworld News
I grovelled at the altar of the tasteless, hoovering up every nugget of vomitous drivel they chucked my way.
He brags about how valued he is at school to impress a woman, then grovels to have his old job back.
Other ordinaries say they will respond only on the basis of individual need; thus, if such a resigned priest languishes in abject poverty or grovels fittingly, he may receive some reluctant beneficence.
I had to really grovel to the bank manager to get a loan.
Most ministers have to put up a convincing, grovelling case in the Budget round to get their cause across the line.
We belong to nobody else, and we need to end this grovelling, stand up, and acknowledge that we are grown ups now.
We belong to nobody else, and we need to end this grovelling, stand up, and acknowledge that we are grown ups now.
Hawkowl, I would gladly accede to the label curmudgeon, but I'll never be a snarkling, and I don't do groveling. Miss Snark resembles a Shar-pei
I had to really grovel to the bank manager to get a loan.
Grovelling is certainly no way to win employment—or at least no way to win employment for an organisation that I would want to work for.
I had to really grovel to the bank manager to get a loan.
But even that failed to satisfy the council and, last week, a grovelling apology had to be broadcast.
Since the story first emerged last week, both of them have issued grovelling statements about their affair.
The spectacle of an entire nation groveling in contentment is an infuriating thing … Humor
I found it grovelling along the ground, tangled and wild, and twining round every worthless weed, and it struck me as an emblem of myself: a mere scatterling, running to waste and uselessness. Tales of a Traveller
They also expected obeisance, deference, and acquiescence to their methods - even groveling - from me.
Lewis the Twelfth his death, tam subita mutatio, ut qui prius digito coelum attingere videbantur, nunc humi derepente serpere, sideratos esse diceres, they that were erst in heaven, upon a sudden, as if they had been planet-strucken, lay grovelling on the ground; Anatomy of Melancholy
In a sickening display of abject groveling he declared: ‘My behavior on this occasion was unacceptable and irresponsible.’
Some preemptive grovelling can go a long way.
Of all the varied methods, John Gunter, the fisherman, preferred the grub-and-grovelling method, and the favourite scene of his grovelling was a low grog-shop in one of the lower parts of Yarmouth. The Young Trawler
Here is the pretty official groveling in sentimentality.
The company offered a grovelling apology via a blog post today and explained the issue.
Imagine the kind of groveling Apple would have to do to pick up Yahoo or Microsoft Bing or some other vendor as its primary provider of search and maps. Google Should Make Apple Beg For Maps Navigation
This requires flexibility and upper-body strength, neither of which I had, and it was generally humiliating, especially when we had to grovel on the ground doing ‘power moves’.
Some stalwart grad student could write quite a paper on the undertones and resonances of a paragraph like this one: "Through British veins runs the poisonous fake idealism of "human rights" and "sensitivity," of happy-clappy multicultural groveling and sick, weak, deracinated moral universalism -- the rotten fruit of a debased, sentimentalized Christianity. Richard (RJ) Eskow: England's Ashes - America's Future?
I grovelled around the floor looking for the candle and some matches. INSTRUMENTS OF DARKNESS
I was grovelling under the sofa, trying to find my contact lens.
And after the attacks on her grow worse they experience mixed emotions as Jack grovels and pleads with her not to go when finally she decides she has had enough and announces she is leaving.
When it came time to apologise, Ron Brown varied the text of his agreed apology, describing it as "grovelling" and "rubbish". Harry's Place
You groveled to him, so let him have you.
"I was as sullen and foul-tempered with my parents as I was cowardly and groveling at school," he says.
He has a lot of grovelling to do to the fans.
I don't want to sound like a begging, grovelling idiot, but I am genuinely in pain knowing that I cant go.
As NBA teams continue to grovel to Mr. James by unleashing hokey gimmicks the Knicks revived Tony Soprano for a promotional movie; the Cavaliers lined the streets with loyal fans; the L.A. Clippers offered a hard-boiled egg and validated parking the hidden cost is how much the 25-year-old's yawny free-agency waltz is diverting attention from actually interesting sporting events. Tale of LeTape: The Weekend's Big Stories
I find your grovelling sycophancy rather disgusting and a bit creepy.
Sunday, Oct. 29, 2006 @ 6: 26 p.m. Hmmm, I haven't seen Not-Green-Eyed-Guy since he contacted me to "grovel". Madrigle Diary Entry
Not that she would grovel either - devil take it, she'd keep some pride!
In Shackleton's own words, ‘We had suffered, starved and triumphed, grovelled down yet grasped at glory.’
Configuration got radically simpler—no more grovelling around for the system MDA and user's mailbox, no more worries about whether the underlying OS supports file locking.
The star has forgiven theatre him for heckling her during a play after he wrote a grovelling letter of apology.
Even Cicero became a groveling, craven bootlicker in the end. Matthew Yglesias » The Missing Faction
Wolf Larsen it was, always Wolf Larsen, enslaver and tormentor of men, a male Circe and these his swine, suffering brutes that grovelled before him and revolted only in drunkenness and in secrecy. Chapter 26
They sent a grovelling email to the couple begging for forgiveness.
Look, all we are saying is that unless Sen Obama crawls towards Sen Clinton on his knees through West Virginia in sack-cloth and ashes like Henry IV grovelling before Gregory VII in Canossa, we will know that he is not serious about uniting the country ... Clinton Camp: Obama Shouldn't Get Away With Writing Off West Virginia Loss
At first Bâtard would crowd himself into the smallest possible space, grovelling close to the floor; but as the music came nearer and nearer, he was forced to uprear, his back jammed into the logs, his fore legs fanning the air as though to beat off the rippling waves of sound. BÂTARD
Elections Systems & Software (ES&S) is now reportedly "groveling" and apologizing to state officials for not having done any better in the state. The Approaching 2006 E-Voting 'Train Wreck' - Are We Making Headway or Losing The Battle?
White Fang crawled slowly, cringing and grovelling in the abjectness of his abasement and submission. The Trail of the Gods
And what better use can we find for those degenerates who grovel in your gutters, or sell themselves for money? NIGHT SISTERS
When Qualary spoke to her or of her, she said `Madam Domer ' in tones of absolute subservience and grovelling respect. A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
My approach is to rarely ask him for anything if I can at all help it, since his granting of a favour requires about 3-5 years of effusive gratitude and grovelling.
Some stalwart grad student could write quite a paper on the undertones and resonances of a paragraph like this one: "Through British veins runs the poisonous fake idealism of "human rights" and "sensitivity," of happy-clappy multicultural groveling and sick, weak, deracinated moral universalism -- the rotten fruit of a debased, sentimentalized Christianity. Richard (RJ) Eskow: England's Ashes - America's Future?
These 'charitable' people went into the wretched homes of the poor and -- in effect -- said: 'Abandon every particle of self-respect: cringe and fawn: come to church: bow down and grovel to us, and in return we'll give you a ticket that you can take to a certain shop and exchange for a shillingsworth of groceries. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
Jeffries was ubiquitous; he led the "grovel" (as the scrum was called at Fernhurst), and kept it together. The Loom of Youth
The new ardor which burns in his breast consumes in its glow the lower "noes" which formerly beset him, and keeps him immune against infection from the entire groveling portion of his nature. The Varieties of Religious Experience
Commentators accused Obama of "grovelling" and noted that protocol traditionally calls for an American president to bow to no one ... least of all a foreign potentate. Home - BostonHerald.com
After much grovelling, they were allowed to perform the song.
Miss Shields had not studied Mr. Matthew Arnold, and was mercifully unaware that not to detect the "pinchbeck" in the _Lays_ is the sign of a grovelling nature. The Mark Of Cain
He lent him his hand to help him, touched him, and set him upon his hands and knees (v. 10), else he would still have lain grovelling, touched his lips (v. 16), else he would have been still dumb; again he touched him (v. 18), and put strength into him, else he would still have been staggering and trembling. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
He issued a grovelling apology for his rowdy behaviour on the plane.
Some stalwart grad student could write quite a paper on the undertones and resonances of a paragraph like this one: "Through British veins runs the poisonous fake idealism of "human rights" and "sensitivity," of happy-clappy multicultural groveling and sick, weak, deracinated moral universalism -- the rotten fruit of a debased, sentimentalized Christianity. Richard (RJ) Eskow: England's Ashes - America's Future?
It is pretty hard to hold a "grovel" several stones heavier for over an hour, and this year even Armour was a little doubtful about the lightness of his side. The Loom of Youth
Once he'd got the grovelling out of the way he was transformed.
Resilient than rubber, more sensitive than the world's best radar system and forever grovelling at the boss' feet, these modern Neros fiddle while the office burns.
'collaborationist' aristocrats, lynched, raped, looted, burned --- as if those same proles had not groveled befbre the kzinti and kept war production going for theml Lunatic political factions rioted against each other or did actual armed combat. Inconstant Star
The great thing about all of this religious or" culty "guff, is that all the sheeple groveling in their steeple, they al ... ARN News
I had to really grovel to the bank manager to get a loan.
Humility has nothing to do with grovelling, or apologizing for one's existence.
Obviously a good grovel is as necessary today as it was in the days of serfs.
His intensely physical lead performance careens from raving belligerence to groveling abjection.
Actually "groveling" before AIPAC is what use to be done; the new posture requires that our AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed
I was grovelling under the sofa, trying to find my contact lens.
I chose not to point out the negligible cost of such an economic crime to them, but continued to grovel for clemency.
She deserved to grovel, but since that didn't appear to be working, she reverted to being the world-weary, spoiled heiress. THIS HEART OF MINE
All right, Charles, you don't have to grovel on all fours! ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
In the rare cases where there are Republicans, they have to be the nice sort of Republican who can grovel for scraps from the Democrat feast. Breaking: WFP/ACORN Takes The Fifth On Corruption Suit. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState
He issued a grovelling apology for his rowdy behaviour on the plane.
Shall they who have an unperishing Treasure in Heaven, meanly stoop to grovel in the Dust of the Earth, to obtain those Riches which are destroyed by a thousand Accidents? Heaven the residence of the saints

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