GROPING in a Sentence

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For GROPING, below is one of 70 sentences:
At any rate, it shall be strong enough to search to grope an outlet from this cloud of doubt, and find the open day of certainty.

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 Meanings and Examples of GROPING
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
grope
 v.  search blindly or uncertainly; reach about uncertainly; feel one's way
Classic Sentence: (63 in 5 pages)
1  Her lips, groping for his, swept over his face, and he held her fast in a rapture of surprise.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
2  She could feel his small hands groping through the folds for her legs.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
3  She had not known again till today that lightness, that glow of freedom; but now it was something more than a blind groping of the blood.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
4  His mind turned to Gerty Farish's words, and the wisdom of the world seemed a groping thing beside the insight of innocence.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
5  His faculties seemed tranced, and he was still groping for the word to break the spell.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 12
6  Cautiously we went back to the snake; he was still groping with his tail, turning up his ugly belly in the light.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VII
7  He was gone away himself, stumbling through the shadows, and groping after the soul that had fled.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
8  When I reached him he was groping about frantically in the empty cab, and giving vent to the finest assorted collection of oaths that ever I listened to.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER V. OUR ADVERTISEMENT BRINGS A VISITOR
9  And the lawyer, scared by the thought, brooded a while on his own past, groping in all the corners of memory, lest by chance some Jack-in-the-Box of an old iniquity should leap to light there.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER SEARCH FOR MR. HYDE
10  Not with the brightness natural to cheerful youth, but with uncertain, eager, doubtful flashes, which had something painful in them, analogous to the changes on a blind face groping its way.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III
11  Then she felt the soft, groping, helplessly desirous hand touching her body, feeling for her face.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
12  Then she quivered as she felt his hand groping softly, yet with queer thwarted clumsiness, among her clothing.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
13  'It's as dark as the grave,' said the man, groping forward a few steps.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
14  I entered it groping, for the change from light to blackness made spots of colour swim before me.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In V
15  But, at last I began, in a purblind groping way, to read, write, and cipher, on the very smallest scale.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VII
Example Sentence:
1  At any rate, it shall be strong enough to search to grope an outlet from this cloud of doubt, and find the open day of certainty.
2  You grope for your next handhold or foothold as you slowly make your way to the top.
3  Novice extemporaneous speakers often talk in a halting fashion as they grope for the right words.
4  She groped for her key in her bag.
5  He groped for the doorhandle in the dark.
6  He groped his way in the dark.
7  She groped for her glasses on the bedside table.