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Example sentences for: groping

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I realized that this was the thing I'd been groping for."
Anyone who claims to fully understand the economic disaster that has overtaken Asia proves, by that very certainty, that he . The truth is that we have never seen anything quite like this, and that everyone--from the country doctors at the International Monetary Fund and the Treasury Department who must prescribe economic medicine to those of us who have the luxury of irresponsibility--is groping frantically for models and metaphors to make sense of this thing.
groping across them ( Still Life With Herrings , circa 1916).
In contrast, the followers of the dead princess are "groping about in silence" and losing "the faith which seemed so solid only a year ago."
The low-key coverage of the event reflected several pre-established media themes: a) Steele is a "peripheral" figure hounded by a vindictive special prosecutor, Kenneth Starr; b) the Steele trial is a pathetic coda to Flytrap's now-finished symphony ("Starr's Last Gasps," says Time ); and c) the sole remaining function of the case is to help determine the credibility of Kathleen Willey, the Richmond, Va., socialite who accuses President Clinton of crudely groping her near the Oval Office in 1993.