grindstone
Example Sentences
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Faced with its first true test of the season, No. 21 Rutgers won with its nose to the grindstone in a workmanlike effort.
From Fox News
“Just work your butt off and keep your nose to the grindstone.”
From Washington Times
“That’s the way it is and all I can do is keep my nose to the grindstone and hope that people will come to their senses at some point. But if not, not,” he said.
From Fox News
Since he came down that escalator to announce his campaign, he has relied on weaponizing racism, blaming some "other" to his aggrieved white base, without the corresponding push to put nose to grindstone.
From Salon
“We really put our nose to the grindstone after we won and kept working really hard for what was going to be the ultimate goal,” Holt said.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
