Example Sentences

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Just before El Glaoui died last year at 80, the old man had groveled abjectly before the man he had forced into exile, begging forgiveness.

From Time Magazine Archive

Through the crag's proud centuries, a squalid village had groveled 500 feet below on the poplar-lined banks of the river Lot.

From Time Magazine Archive

He saw how one wrong had been a sure and easy path to another, until in the end he had groveled face downward in the mire.

From Bressant by Hawthorne, Julian

It was that same Spong who had groveled in the mud of Buckingham Palace Road nine hours ago.

From The Wheel O' Fortune by Tracy, Louis

It was also said that he, the great "gunman," Pap, had groveled at her feet like any callow school-youth.

From The Triumph of John Kars A Story of the Yukon by Cullum, Ridgwell