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Example sentences for: grope

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This means that improvements in glaze quality and metallurgy become clear, but the viewer must grope for what links an austere, octagonal Tang vase to a theatrically rearing, gilded bronze dragon from the same era.
Clearly most of them are; we are expected to read them without recoiling, though we may grope for a dictionary.
In Charles Stough's delightful article, Insulting Nicknames Give Journalists Something to Be Proud of [XXI,4], he gives The Grope and Flail for Canada's national newspaper of record, The (Toronto) Globe and Mail .
..as the moon—,” (from pynchon) in which it means `swollen'; guddle , “to use a fishing technique involving the use of only the hands, to grope” is not quite correct: it is `to (try to) catch a fish (esp.
Steele told this story to Newsweek 's Michael Isikoff in March 1997 (according to his book Uncovering Clinton ) after Willey had suggested to Isikoff that he could check out the grope story with Steele.