Thesaurus / grinding
FEEDBACKHow to use grinding in a sentence
When the harvest time arrives in December, each tenant carries his crop to the mill for grinding.
ALILA, OUR LITTLE PHILIPPINE COUSINMARY HAZELTON WADEThe earnest youth grinding at the academic mill has dreamed it in the pauses of his studious labor.
THE UNSOLVED RIDDLE OF SOCIAL JUSTICESTEPHEN LEACOCKThe grinding of snuff is at present carried on much as it was one hundred years ago.
TOBACCO; ITS HISTORY, VARIETIES, CULTURE, MANUFACTURE AND COMMERCEE. R. BILLINGS.It is a thing invented by the great to enable them to pursue the grinding and oppression of the small.
ST. MARTIN'S SUMMERRAFAEL SABATINIThere was a ceaseless chorus of distant machinery, and above it rose the grinding and rattling solo of a steam winch.
DOPESAX ROHMEROn the bottom of the bay, near low tide, we begin to find some sand produced by the grinding action.
OUTLINES OF THE EARTH'S HISTORYNATHANIEL SOUTHGATE SHALERThey settled down quietly to a life of grinding monotony that would have driven some men crazy.
CABIN FEVERB. M. BOWERThey are busy at work, turning a great wheel inside the mill; and the wheel is busy grinding corn into meal.
THE NURSERY, DECEMBER 1881, VOL. XXXVARIOUSThe occurrence of these may be prevented by grinding the lime shortly before use.
ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA, 11TH EDITION, VOLUME 4, PART 3VARIOUSThe omnibus was returning from the railway station and its wheels were grinding on the sand in an unusual manner.
THE NABOBALPHONSE DAUDETWORDS RELATED TO GRINDING
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