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grope - use in sentences
Converse of object
- have: And that meant he could have a good grope in the dark.
Object
- woman: Man jailed for groping woman in Bingo Hall - 19/09/05 Log in to remember this page.
- hand: The cedar's limbs flailed, a ghost's groping hands.
Preposition: at
- noonday: The scriptures are sufficient to make us wise; but without the light of the Spirit, how do we grope at noonday!
Followed by an intransitive particle
- out: He flicked his eyelids back shut and groped out for the sides of his unit.
Modifying Another Word
- still: In superstring theories certain details have come first; we are still groping for a unifying insight into the logic of the theory.
Adjective modifier
- quick: What will be next, tongues and a quick grope?
Preposition: in
- dark: Without it is just like ' groping in the dark ' , I do not visit any country without first checking the GPI report.
Modifies a noun
- stranger: Want to do more than drown yourself in cheap liquor and grope strangers?
Preposition: for
- answer: Even my little girl was interested and I got loads of questions - for many of which I was groping for an answer.
Modifying Another Word
- forward: Her hands grope forward to lift the first of them.
Preposition: for
- way: They were as blind men and as those who grope for the way for 20 years.
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