Example Sentences

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Suddenly she lost her footing on the wall, turned gropingly in the lurid light and let go.

From Time Magazine Archive

Still pooh-poohing in print all fears for the flyers' safety, they set out gropingly to the rescue.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then, gropingly and painfully, they went about reformulating the basic rules of body maintenance: they reinvented soap and water.

From Time Magazine Archive

He turned gropingly toward music because for him it had an absolute value.

From Time Magazine Archive

As Woundwort watched, he raised a trembling forepaw and passed it gropingly across his face.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams