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How to use the word ground in a Sentence?

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The longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth: 'that God governs in the affairs of men.' And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid?

Benjamin Franklin

added by Normando
3 months ago

Don’t discriminate. Embrace the beauty of diversity, for in unity, we find strength. Let compassion be our language, understanding our common ground, and kindness our guiding principle.”

Christen Kuikoua

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4 months ago

That heat pump is basically run from heat in the ground, the fuel is basically the Earth source heat.

Arlene Anderson

Found on CNN
11 months ago

The stand your ground action, under the laws of Missouri, are completely inapplicable to this case, because there has been no conversation, not from the suspect, not from the victim and not from law enforcement, that Ralph Yarl, at 16 years old, ever posed a threat to this shooter.

Lee Merritt

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We continue to fight to say you can’t profile and shoot our children, just because you have this ‘stand your ground’ law, unacceptable.

Susan Pfannmuller/AP Crump

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Even though United States does not have troops on the ground in Ukraine, it has been able to tell the Ukrainian military where to fire their weapons by sending signals from its electronic warfare aircraft, we need to make sure we have the necessary equipment to link with United States military systems at times of war.

United States

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The ground is literally sunk in some places by 10 or 15 feet over the past decade, that has literally changed the topography of the historical lakebed. Some places are lower even than they were the last time there was a big flood event.

Daniel Swain

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We found the optimal angle is about 40 degrees off the ground. Once Dillon Ruble’re aiming that high, Dillon Ruble throw as hard as possible. That gives us our best distance, it took simulations to figure that out. I did n’t think we could get useful data from a simulation on a paper airplane. Turns out, we could.

Garrett Jensen

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The JWST gives us the ability to look at both Uranus and Neptune in a completely new way because we have never had a telescope of this size that looks in the infrared, the infrared can show us new depths and features that are difficult to see from the ground with the atmosphere in the way and invisible to telescopes that look in visible light like Hubble.

Naomi Rowe-Gurney

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Now we’re seeing that it’s bigger than everyone thinks and it’s exploding in the faces of the government officials, there is some progress [in the cleanup] but the lingering impacts are getting worse for those on the ground.

Greenpeace Philippines campaigner Jefferson Chua

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I highly recommend the Aeropress due to its compact size and easy cleanup, it not only produces a delicious cup of coffee that can rival any coffee shop, but when combined with a hand-held grinder, you can have freshly ground coffee wherever you are.

Nadine Gehrmann

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We have made multiple good faith attempts to find common ground so we could see this critical piece of information. Unfortunately, Secretary Blinken has refused to provide the Dissent Cable and his response to the cable, forcing me to issue my first subpoena as chairman of this committee.

Michael McCaul

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This is not nearly enough, partly because it’s a supply and demand problem. We still got a lot of straws in the ground, but you’d need multiple years like this in a row to really move the needle on recharging those aquifers.

Daniel Swain

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This is about a community that no one had ever heard of before, becoming ground zero and a small town being destroyed overnight.

Misti Allison

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The snow water equivalent in the snowpack that’s still on the ground is in the top 10 or 20% compared to historic years, so there’s really just quite a lot of snow water out there, with temperatures on the colder side for this winter, it hasn’t had a chance to melt out slowly yet.

Masha Hoy

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The desire to land humans at a location where they might be able to extract water ice from the ground has been pushing mission planners to consider higher latitude sites, but the latter environments are typically colder and more challenging for humans and robots. If there were equatorial locations where ice might be found at shallow depth, then we’d have the best of both environments: warmer conditions for human exploration and still access to ice.

Pascal Lee

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When you see a guy there who works so hard like Edwin on the ground like that, it’s sad.

Puerto Rico

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It would be one thing if we found a certain piece of technology in the cockpit or a certain control tower where there were a lot of issues, but instead what we’re finding is that pilots, ground crews and controllers alike seem to be experiencing this uptick. Some have described it as a kind of rust.

Pete Buttigieg

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The ocean is a complex place. There are lots of ocean currents, there are changes over time due to weather and due to conditions on the ground.

Lisa Erdle

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Avi and InternetActivism has a great track record for safety and we at SETF are ensuring that anyone who wants to host presents the required documents, our teams on the ground are available to ensure follow up if there are any issues.

Mouaz Moustafa

Found on CNN
1 year ago

China continues to be the glaring exception to the ongoing global decline in coal plant development, the speed at which projects progressed through permitting to construction in 2022 was extraordinary, with many projects sprouting up, gaining permits, obtaining financing and breaking ground apparently in a matter of months.

Flora Champenois

Found on CNN
1 year ago

For America to be at our best, we have to work together, we must come together on a common ground, built on common sense.

Tim Scott

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When the roles are replaced with the same representation that we already have, we don’t keep losing ground, we maintain, and we build.

Sheryl Sandberg

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Two gunmen approached and we believe both have fired multiple shots. John ran a short distance and fell to the ground. While he was on the ground, the gunmen continued to fire at him.

Mark McEwan

Found on CNN
1 year ago

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