grind

Example Sentences

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Instead this is the type of game where they will go and grind out a 'one-niller', by nicking a set-piece goal.

From BBC

The most likely is a fifth year of grinding attritional warfare, while talks go round in circles.

From The Wall Street Journal

I grind my teeth trying to figure out what to say when Celia breezes through, lunch bag in one hand, purse in the other.

From Literature

"It wasn't pretty, but we were able to grind it out and find a way to win and I think that's really important for us."

From Barron's

Outside, the Harbor City preschool reflected its industrial neighborhood: scant grass, little shade, amid a block of warehouses full of grinding machinery.

From Los Angeles Times