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How to use the word grinding in a Sentence?

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pictures of life grinding to a halt decorating walls movement in dead motion limbs askew mouths stretched wide in motionless scream. art as we see it – feeling it’s another story. so does art imitate life or does life imitate A—R—T and where does it end – on cold walls before disinterested observers?

Scott C. Holstad

added by scottholstad
1 year ago

We are grinding through it.

John Cornyn

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think we're not seeing the Ukrainian defenses buckle, they're hanging on, but it is a grinding fight.

Colin Kahl

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Eventually, the loss of troops, the loss of foreign investment, the loss of public support, the economic drain — all those are facts that he can't ignore indefinitely, but I think he's resisting that because he's living … in a world of slanted intelligence and illusions and utopian ideas about a return of the Russian Empire that will take some time to crumble away. And he's resisting it mightily, still trying to come up with that military victory, even as everyone else can see it grinding to a halt.

Robert English

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It’s a tough way to lose, obviously, it was a grinding game, it always is when we play these guys. They were able to find a way there to come out with two points, so it’s disappointing.

John Klingberg

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

They definitely kicked up the intensity and made it harder for us to make shots that we usually hit, that is why we keep grinding and we will now get ready and be ready to go on Monday.

Keldon Johnson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I definitely wanted to win, but we've got to keep grinding it out, this league is hard. It’s hard to win games in this league.

Kemba Walker

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I know Tampa Bay Buccaneers gear’s been Tampa Bay Buccaneers gear. I hope you’ve been enjoying the season so far. We’re grinding, getting ready to start the playoffs, but earlier you held up that sign that I helped you beat brain cancer. Well, listen, your fight, you’ve inspired so many people, including Tom Brady, but millions of others also. The The NFL and the Bucs look forward to sending deserving fans to the Super Bowl each year and fans that have incredible stories like the one you’ve had.

Tom Brady

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I’ve been out here a long time. I have n’t won, but I love competing, and I just want to see if I can keep beating guys, sunday they give the trophies away, but you’re really out there grinding and you’re playing against yourself. But it’s just fun to see how I can match up when I ’m playing well and even when I ’m not, just how to manage that and get the most out of each week.

Cameron Tringale

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The guys have been grinding, and they’ve taken some heat in the last weeks, and I thought today was awesome. There was a lot of quality at-bats. They stayed on ’em, with their foot on their necks, as a starting pitcher, there’s just nothing better, right?

Paul Quantrill

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I’ve been kind of grinding with the team the whole year.

Tony Gonsolin

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

He’s been probably one of our most consistent at-bats here over the last week or so, just grinding through it, obviously, his niche is killing the lefties. He usually stays right on left-handed pitching, and he was right there again tonight.

Scott Servais

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It's a resilient group, you give one up, you get right back on the horse and get working. A real strong game in that sense from our team, sticking with it, grinding it out and ultimately getting the win.

Jeff Carter

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

If indeed we do keep grinding higher that would be healthy, that would suggest that the grinding higher is sustainable, the pullbacks along the way are healthy.

Doug Peta

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

You saw amazing starting pitching and you saw our lineup really grinding it out, that’s how we drew it up. Very relieving to have that one in the books.

Brandon Nimmo

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

My head kinda felt like I got hit with a truck, my stomach was grinding.

Specialist Keltz

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

We look for signals of pain - teeth grinding, distress - and we just take it on a day-by-day basis, sometimes koalas seem to be doing really, really well. Their paws might be healing up but if something's going on that we can't see there's not really much we can do.

Amanda Gordon

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The OPEC induced oil rally has come to a grinding halt in the wake of the bearish to consensus API inventory swell, further OPEC cuts are unlikely the cure-all medicine. But by the numbers, the magnitude of the expected oversupply in 2020 is thought to be well within OPEC's ability to manage.

Stephen Innes

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

For the past 30 years our nation’s spent $5 trillion trying to erase poverty, and the result, as you know, is that we didn’t get rid of it at all. In fact, we spread it. We destroyed the self-esteem of millions of people, grinding them down in a welfare system that penalizes moms for wanting to marry the father of their children, and penalizes moms for wanting to save money. Friends, that’s not right.

J. C. Watts

added by Normando
4 years ago

Like the guys say, reserve your sorrow for Skaggs family, his wife, were going to keep grinding every day and playing hard and playing with a spirit.

Justin Bour

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Well, it's just fighting it out and grinding it out, but I still say that it's important to miss the ball in the correct spots.

Tiger Woods

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

She spends days thinking about the menu, grinding her own pepper, driving all over town just to find that one ingredient that we need, i've gotten pretty handy in the kitchen as her sous-chef.

Douglas Emhoff

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Im very happy with the way Ive been grinding around this golf course, ive missed a few opportunities to get up-and-down for birdie. Overall, I think Ive putted pretty solidly. Other than 17 today, I really havent done a whole lot wrong. I very easily could be up near that lead. Theres no way I would be leading, but I would be close enough to that lead given the weekend and the forecast.

Tiger Woods

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

It's ultimately gonna be good, but when you're going through periods of change, there's gonna be pain, and I think right now, we're right in the middle of the grinding.

Dara Khosrowshahi

Found on CNN
5 years ago

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