grope
verb (used without object)
to feel about with the hands; feel one's way.
gropes
Example Sentences
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Partly that’s because most corporate media wouldn’t have carried Hedges’ denunciation of everything it gropes us for.
From Salon ● Mar. 4, 2019
He slams on the brakes, opens the door, gropes for his cane.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 10, 2018
He endows his blighted characters with an instinctive gift for poetry that gropes for patterns in a random and unforgiving universe.
From New York Times ● Jan. 29, 2016
Cusk gropes for a sense of her own authority and decides to say no merely to establish it.
From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2012
She gropes in her purse for a pen and scribbles a few things down on the back of a receipt.
From "Leah on the Offbeat" by Becky Albertalli
