Sample Sentences for
grovel
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    Even now, Miro could touch certain spots on a body that would cause a victim to grovel with pain.  (source)
    grovel = show submission or fear
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    I want you to tell me that you're disgusted with me and that you're going to leave so that I can beg and grovel on my knees for you to stay.  (source)
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    It burned him to plead for his job, but groveling to el Gerente was still preferable to work in the bean fields.  (source)
    groveling = showing submission or fear
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    But before death (nobody spoke of such things, yet everybody knew of them) there was the routine of confession that had to be gone through: the grovelling on the floor and screaming for mercy, the crack of broken bones, the smashed teeth, and bloody clots of hair.  (source)
    grovelling = showing submission or fear
    unconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use groveling.
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    No more begging, no more groveling.  (source)
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    You couldn't endure seeing your Bene Gesserit witch grovel in Piter's pain amplifiers.†  (source)
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    It grovelled helpless on the ground, even while his intellectual faculties retained their pristine strength, or had perhaps acquired a morbid energy, which disease only could have given them.†  (source)
    unconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use groveled.
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    Patsy bowed and groveled a bit when I turned to face him, but said nothing.†  (source)
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    Prone upon the floor lay Mr. March, with his respectable legs in the air, and beside him, likewise prone, was Demi, trying to imitate the attitude with his own short, scarlet-stockinged legs, both grovelers so seriously absorbed that they were unconscious of spectators, till Mr. Bhaer laughed his sonorous laugh, and Jo cried out, with a scandalized face... "Father, Father, here's the Professor!"†  (source)
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    And a lot of my fantasies involve the ways in which Mia grovels for my forgiveness.†  (source)
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    And the youngest was a groveler, a scrounger under the pews—I couldn't even remember what its sex was.†  (source)
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    Have we not grovel'd here long enough, eating and drinking like mere brutes?†  (source)
    editor's notes: Today we would write groveled.
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    He found these exhibitions, these wild denunciations and cowardly grovellings in propitiation of a God none of them paid any attention to in health, ugly and abominable.†  (source)
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