What is "gropes"

Usage examples of "gropes".

The one who was once silent rises from the cold pallet of stone where he rests and gropes along the passage.

The machine gun probably can't depress far enough to shoot down at him, but they can roll grenades at him until the cows come home, or just pick him off with small arms as he gropes for handholds.

A freshly painted jetway gropes out like a giant lamprey and slaps its neoprene lips onto the side of the plane.

She reaches one long arm far across the bed, gropes on the nightstand for a cigarette.

He nearly jumps out of his seat, spills his beer a little, gropes for the menu.

He gropes for the wire cutter with his free hand and begins to cut himself loose from the snarl.

Randy gropes for a window control, but the car's got power windows and they don't work when it's not running.

He gropes around on the door until he's figured out how to unlock it, and almost instantly it flies open and someone's coming inside to join him.

He gropes his way to the stairs across a carpet which feels as soft as a mattress.

The cold dims her tactile sense, masking those receptors, but she gropes anyway toward the faint heat of the control points.

There’s only one thing she can do, what she’s been doing all along, and she drops again to her knees, eyes closed, and gropes forward, running her hand across the surface of the walkway.

Slowly, she reaches out again, sliding her hand along the cool and silver-rippling surface, gropes for the control points she has found before.

Rather than form a reply, he gropes with his senses to find the wagon.