Example sentences for: groveling

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

  • 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."

  • Rechavam Ze'evi (Moledet) said that the authorities at two Israeli Holocaust museums who had expressed a willingness to receive Arafat were "stoop-backed Jews who were groveling to this scoundrel."

  • Sportswriters called the fighter's pay-per-chew regrets disingenuous, saying that his groveling was more about avoiding a lifetime ban from the sport than about being sorry.

  • In its groveling 1990 editorial apology, the Inquirer said: "Our critics countered that to dangle cash or some other benefit in front of a desperately poor woman is tantamount to coercion.

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


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