How to Use grope in a Sentence

grope

1 of 2 verb
  • I groped for the light switch.
  • We groped along the dark passage.
  • She claims that her boss tried to grope her.
  • She groped around in her purse, looking for her comb.
  • During this time, the man groped her.
    — Kirsten Fiscus, Nashville Tennessean, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Some girls learned to keep their distance so they could not be groped.
    — oregonlive, 12 Dec. 2019
  • One of them says Trump groped and kissed her on a flight decades ago.
    — Mark Berman and Shayna Jacobs, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Apr. 2023
  • Once in the pool, the man grabbed and groped the girl, police said.
    — Larry Seward, Miami Herald, 15 May 2026
  • Don’t the judges just parade you around, then poke, prod and grope you?
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 13 Aug. 2025
  • This leaves the rest of us to grope around in the dark and hazard guesses.
    — Chris Roberts, Forbes, 30 Aug. 2021
  • The witch moved her hand around in the camel bag, groping for the soft leather wallet stuffed with bills.
    — Myriam Gurba, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2023
  • The posters remain silent and stare at the camera for the whole time, and mostly grope their own chests.
    — Peter Aitken, Fox News, 15 July 2023
  • Amá is not talking about the boys who groped me during recess in seventh grade.
    — Longreads, 7 Nov. 2019
  • Employees were groped and asked to send nude photos, her report found.
    — Sonia Moghe, CNN, 6 Feb. 2020
  • Though the air is thick with anguish, three people start to grope their way through it toward each other.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 30 Sep. 2025
  • An older boy pulled out a knife, called her a slur, told her to go back to her country and then tried to kiss and grope her.
    — oregonlive, 8 May 2021
  • And the other girl accused her of doing it on purpose, of trying to grope her.
    — Freep.com, 1 Nov. 2019
  • In one case, a woman who reported a colleague had groped her was made to work alongside him again.
    — Nick Perry, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Aug. 2023
  • The move came as a way to combat chikan, or groping, on public transportation.
    — Katie Herchenroeder, Quartz, 3 Jan. 2020
  • During the ride, one of the men groped Rosalinda, who was fourteen.
    — Jordan Salama, New Yorker, 30 Dec. 2025
  • Vile — lots of climbing, groping, grabbing, grunting and dirt.
    — Linda Perillo, New York Daily News, 8 Feb. 2026
  • The video shows two naked women surrounded by scores of young men who grope their genitals and drag them to a field.
    — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 21 July 2023
  • The footage shows the two naked women surrounded by scores of young men who grope their genitals and drag them to a field.
    — Ashok Sharma and Shonal Ganguly, BostonGlobe.com, 22 July 2023
  • Sherman said the character was his favorite before putting his arm around her and groping her breast.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 7 Nov. 2019
  • Both groped him and discussed his genitals, the complaint alleges.
    — Laura Schulte, Journal Sentinel, 10 Jan. 2024
  • That team proposed slicing off the top of Miranda’s skull and then groping down to her brain stem.
    — David Frum, The Atlantic, 21 Mar. 2024
  • The suspect then approached her from behind and groped her, according to police.
    — Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Then, according to the lawsuit, Sanz groped her breasts in front of everyone.
    — ABC News, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Marty Wilkinson would molest and grope the sisters throughout their teenage years, the suit says.
    — Ngai Yeung, Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2023
  • The clock isn't going back to a time when a young White man could get drunk, grope women, and brag about his parents' money.
    — Jay Parini, CNN, 7 Aug. 2021

grope

2 of 2 noun
  • Her hand gropes around the adjacent night stand to silence her vibrating phone.
    — Kim Hew-Low, New York Times, 16 May 2024
  • The reasons for Manhattan’s current apartment grope are many.
    — Nicholas Pileggi, Curbed, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Cars, motor-scooters and bicycles roar away from the curbs, and another week of the great apartment grope has begun.
    — Nicholas Pileggi, Curbed, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Modesty, gentility, and protocol have no place in the apartment grope.
    — Nicholas Pileggi, Curbed, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Exaggerated costs are matched by exaggerated descriptions, and no small part of mastering the city’s apartment grope is mastering the cryptic language of rental ads.
    — Nicholas Pileggi, Curbed, 15 Aug. 2025

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