grind
verb (used with object)
to wear, smooth, or sharpen by abrasion or friction; whet.
am grinding
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present progressiveof grind (1st person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Does that look as if I am grinding the poor?
From The Colossus A Novel by Opie Percival Read
I am grinding at the mill and getting a little tired.
From Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 1 by Thomas Henry Huxley
But I also know that I am grinding here in this devil's mill while every bad man makes sport and every good man weeps!
From The Redemption of David Corson by Charles Frederic Goss
About Davie I elaborately wrote last time, but still Davie is not done; I am grinding singly at The Ebb Tide, as we now call the Farallone; the most of it will go this mail.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 25 (of 25) by Andrew Lang
I am grinding now in all of my mills, of which one is a paper for the "Woman Suffrage Bazaar," which paper I am doing my best to edit.
From Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 by Maud Howe Elliott
