She gropes her way without much certainty in rooms where she is quite familiar.
He often states a rule too broadly or narrowly, and then, as it were, gropes after restrictions and extensions.
In imagination I can hear Homer singing, as with unsteady, hesitating steps he gropes his way from camp to camp--singing of life, of love, of war, of the splendid achievements of a noble race.
When the clock hands reach a certain time, the bells clang and clatter until a sleepy hand gropes for the switch to turn the clock off.