grope
verb (used without object)
to feel about with the hands; feel one's way.
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
He turned gropingly toward music because for him it had an absolute value.
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
“So—” said Billy gropingly, “I suppose that the idea of preventing war on Earth is stupid, too. “Of course.”
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
