Sentence examples for groping around from inspiring English sources

He gets down on his hands and knees and starts groping around beneath a lamppost.

Whatever Carney says, the Bank is groping around in the dark.

"Eventually, after a lot of groping around, the button came undone"; that's how Wolf himself expressed the sense of release.

"Now I'm groping around in the darkness, with no sense of direction - sound familiar?" Here comes Monty, who keeps Tendulkar honest with some nicely pitched stuff.

"The research culture has run out of anything sane to say about literature and is now groping around for further ways to not really analyse anything," says Kennedy. "It's like hitting a painting with a fish – why would you?

Then we just start groping around and things come out, and somewhere along the line, if I'm lucky, those things begin to tell you where to go and how to make sense of them.

I groped around for what looked like the trunks and branches of olive trees.

Then I grope around in it to see what that is, try different orderings and different concepts and then fix on one".

I was tired from a long day, that was part of it, but, more likely suffering from some scattered mental state of my own, I groped around till I found the rocking chair with the torn seat that I had always meant to recane, and, in that total darkness and with the light of the candles slow to fade in my mind, I sat down and, though meaning only to rest a moment, fell asleep.

They use their eyes, of course, but new research reveals that they also grope around like humans do.

We groped around, and Lola found a pole to steady herself with.