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Examples of grovel
grovel
She burns through her protected ranking and then needs to grovel for wild cards.
From the sportsillustrated.cnn.com
A great leader, as Obama claims to be, would not grovel for political advantage.
From the time.com
Candidates for high political office usually grovel for newspaper endorsements.
From the kentucky.com
P3Politicians should not grovel to press barons like Murdoch, says Lord Patten.
From the guardian.co.uk
Is this grovel abject enough for Westminster, never mind the rest of Fleet Street?
From the guardian.co.uk
She tells him it's over while he continues to grovel and plead for another chance.
From the suntimes.com
A great leader, which Obama claims to be, would not grovel for political advantage.
From the time.com
As he saw himself losing to Stalin, he began to grovel and tried effusive flattery.
From the washingtontimes.com
Imo they should grovel back to Bruce or someone else now with 10 games to go.
From the expressandstar.com
- Fawn: show submission or fear
- (grovelling) cringing: totally submissive
- To be prone on the ground; To crawl; To abase oneself before another person; To be nice to someone or apologize in the hope of securing something; To take pleasure in mundane activities
- To climb with obviously poor style or technique. A climbing route judged to be without redeeming virtue.
- To be humiliated by a route; to show bad climbing form.
- A bit involving groveling before royalty. In it s simplest form one simply prostrates oneself on the ground, but creative grovels can be Baroque in their elaboration.
- A hill you end up in your lowest gear for. "That hill was a real grovel." Also used on the flat when you have blown your ring.
