Example sentences for: groveling

How can you use “groveling” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Dept. of Faux-Groveling: Chatterbox (3/19) shouldn't have been as nasty as it was about John Broder's front page New York Times story last Thursday on Kathleen Willey's detractor, Julie Steele.

  • One is made from a fallen American missile melted down and remolded in the image of agonized Western leaders groveling at Saddam's feet.

  • 5. "Still shifting from old editorial policy of uncritical worship of Hollywood celebrities to new policy of enthusiastic groveling before Hollywood celebrities."

  • The right-wing pundits are incensed by the "most expansive and extensive groveling and pandering" ever exhibited by a U.S. president (Pat Buchanan, The McLaughlin Group ). Noting that the Sudanese routinely sell children into slavery, Buchanan sees no need to offer apologies to "those people over there."

  • You are permitted to weave variations on a few side issues--for example, was his apology groveling enough?


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