grovel in English

verb
1
lie or move abjectly on the ground with one's face downward.
she was groveling on the floor in fear
synonyms:prostrate oneselfliekneelcringe
verb

Use "grovel" in a sentence

Below are sample sentences containing the word "grovel" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "grovel", or refer to the context using the word "grovel" in the English Dictionary.

1. Manager : Ah! The famous Monsieur poirot. I grovel in mortification, I grovel !

2. I'd prefer you grovel.

3. I don't grovel to anybody.

4. I will not grovel for interviews.

5. You must grovel at her feet.

6. She will not grovel to anyone.

7. Don't grovel — stick up for yourself!

8. Were I such they would grovel at my feet.

9. He said he would never grovel before a conqueror.

10. The department is having to grovel for money again.

11. Maybe if I really grovel, he will pass me.

12. Then he began to grovel and wail, " I deserve to die! "

13. Speakers have been shouted down, classes disrupted, teachers made to grovel.

14. Does itjust make you sick to see guys like me grovel like this?

15. After struggling for months, it dawned on me that I needed to grovel.

16. Since they speak straightforwardly and selflessly and never appear to grovel or fawn.

17. Not that she would grovel either - devil take it, she'd keep some pride!

18. There's nothing worse than seeing a man grovel just to keep his job.

19. 11 synonyms for Brownnose: bootlick, cringe, fawn, grovel, kowtow, slaver, toady, truckle, apple

20. A man apologizes when he's wrong, but he will grovel before no one.

21. A wise man is one who knows who to bully - and who grovel to.

22. Pessimistic persons would like to grovel on the floor rather than meet the challenge.

23. These are men who lead their daily lives with inflated pomp; they grovel for nothing.

24. 14 synonyms for Cower: cringe, shrink, tremble, crouch, flinch, quail, draw back, grovel, huddle, fawn

25. Those who wished a favour of the emperor had to grovel on hands and knees before him.

26. I do not grovel before she who lay with a non-magic and hatched his spawn.

27. We know what it's like to have them grovel to our faces and snigger behind our backs.

28. In any case, the goal should not be to get the other party to concede, to grovel, as it were.

29. There was trouble over the adults and Chadwick had to grovel to earn approval for his second train transport.

30. Cringe: 1 v draw back, as with fear or pain Synonyms: flinch , funk , quail , recoil , shrink , squinch , wince Types: retract , shrink back pull away from a source of disgust or fear Type of: move move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion v show submission or fear Synonyms: cower , crawl , creep , fawn , grovel Type of:

31. Back formation is the method of forming new words by subtracting something from old ones.The adverbs sideling, groveling, darkling were formed by adding the suffix -ling.But in such sentences, he walks sideling, he lies groveling, I listen darkling, the suffix -ling looked exactly like the ending -ing with the oust that the verbs to sidle, to grovel, to darkle were formed from the adverbs by