Sentence examples for grovel on from inspiring English sources

If they want me to get down and grovel on the floor; no, never.

In case you were away and missed it, this was the Times grovel on Monday that instantly took pole position in the contest for correction of the year: "Karol Wojtyla was referred to in Saturday's Credo column as 'the first non-Catholic pope for 450 years'.

Even senior-level executive job seekers grovel on job interviews.

Andy Shaw of Grovel on the other hand had a more negative response, praising the artwork of Dave McKean and calling it "brilliant", but criticized Morrison's story as claustrophobic and "has more ponderous psychology than action and, as a result, not enough room to fit any decent action in".

It's probably unrealistic to assume your parent will want to grovel on his or her belly and beg your forgiveness, but talking is the first step.

Off air, after the big Thompson grovel, one of his executives declared, in the manner of Bob Diamond, that the time for banging on about women was over.

Grovelling on that scale might work.

Much of the coverage, while cheerful (even grovelling) on the surface, contains a nasty undercurrent of snobbery.

She began to read Shakespeare, and for a school production — grovelling on the ground and growling — she took on Caliban, a part that none of her classmates had wanted to tackle.

Four men, Cromwell thinks, "who for a joke turned the cardinal into a beast; who took away his wit, his kindness and his grace, and made him a howling animal, grovelling on the boards and scrabbling with his paws".

With the UBI, innovators would be given the room to experiment knowing they would still have something to fall back on; it would see more small businesses and less grovelling on Dragons' Den.