grooved

past tense of groove

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of grooved After a sacrifice bunt and Sears’ eighth strikeout — one shy of a season high — the 29-year-old left-hander grooved a middle-in sweeper for Blaine Crim to yank out to left, some 439 feet from the plate. Jeff Sanders, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Sep. 2025 With its signature grooved aluminum shell, Rimowa’s spinners are both a fashion statement and a piece of travel engineering. Julie Loffredi, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for grooved
Recent Examples of Synonyms for grooved
Verb
  • On an email chain including seven of Stryker’s lawyers, the company’s legal team filed a motion for a temporary restraining order on the records, more than an hour after UC released them to The Enquirer.
    Elizabeth B. Kim, Cincinnati Enquirer, 12 Nov. 2025
  • The judgment releases the county from four separate federal lawsuits filed by various plaintiffs against officials.
    Matthew Kelly, Kansas City Star, 12 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Under de Blasio, the mansion became a space that blended residential, artistic, and civic functions, including exhibitions exploring social change, while maintaining the mansion’s long-standing public and political significance.
    Nandika Chatterjee, Time, 5 Nov. 2025
  • The production intentionally blended Eastern and Western elements, drawing inspiration from Sergio Leone while incorporating Japanese Bunraku puppet movements and martial arts traditions.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 5 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Though Leo’s lyrics are raw and scribed with vigor and delivered with a backing choir that breaks down into soprano, alto, and tenor vibrato, the track feels too theatric and out of step sonically with the rest of the album.
    Meagan Jordan, Rolling Stone, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Instead of one community, which might be de- scribed as democratic, there appear separate and distinct communities that must be de- scribed as totalitarian.
    Harpers Magazine, Harpers Magazine, 23 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Rarely, if ever, in American history has political party allegiance been so closely correlated with religious beliefs.
    Abby McCloskey, Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Either way, this continues a recent pattern in which stock indexes have been positively correlated with Treasury yields, as shown here.
    Michael Santoli, CNBC, 5 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • In October alone, shoppers were attacked in a supermarket, a Spanish tourist was scratched by a cub at a heritage site, and a trail runner was forced to wrestle a bear in the woods before sprinting to safety.
    Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Six Central and North American teams scratched, leaving Cuba to qualify.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 7 Nov. 2025

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“Grooved.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grooved. Accessed 15 Nov. 2025.

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