- present participle of grind.
grinding
Example Sentences
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Onstage as on your phone, Dylan was searching for new limits Wednesday — a lifer grinding toward the sublime.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 19, 2026
The expansion has brought faster-paced lifestyles, grinding traffic jams, regular flooding, severe air pollution and a dire shortage of public green spaces to unwind.
From Barron's • Jun. 15, 2026
The Russian army is grinding forward slowly, churning up everything in its path.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026
But starting against a gritty, grinding opponent with a long history of making better teams look bad will provide a useful test.
From Salon • Jun. 11, 2026
Sidana twitched furiously, pulling at his whiskers and grinding his crooked teeth.
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
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