Example Sentences

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So you can see why there’s a widespread sense of disgust at the way leaders have groveled before Jeff Bezos.

From Slate • Nov. 15, 2018

Pick meeee: Cities including Boston, Ottawa, New York, and Tucson have groveled at Jeff Bezos’ feet in their applications to host Amazon’s second headquarters that were due on Thursday.

From Slate • Oct. 19, 2017

I don’t believe that it was at all necessary for you to have groveled in aristocratic crimes in order to win her heart.

From 'Charge It' Keeping Up With Harry by Bacheller, Irving

If Apollonius had turned on him as he deserved he would have groveled before him.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 09 Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig by Various

I think of men who have lived and loved there, who have groveled and gloried, who have drunk deep and died.

From Ballads of a Bohemian by Service, Robert W. (Robert William)