grind
verb (used with object)
to wear, smooth, or sharpen by abrasion or friction; whet.
grindingly
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a word derived from
grind.
Example Sentences
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Director Jon Favreau’s film, which he wrote with Dave Filoni and Noah Kloor, features a grindingly simple plot that provides the weakest possible pretext to staple together a series of uninspired monster and droid fights.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026
It isn't a tactic that comes naturally to England's coaching staff, whose Premiership triumph with Leicester in 2022 came via grindingly accurate percentage rugby and a barrage of kicks.
From BBC ● Mar. 9, 2025
Is the grindingly self-conscious realism of a movie like “The Whale” a more empathetic gesture or a crueler, uglier one?
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 8, 2022
In Africa, where 20 percent of people face hunger, progress was grindingly slow.
From New York Times ● Aug. 1, 2022
But once the point had been seized, and repetition gave the poor gentleman as many ears as the breasts of the Ephesian Diana, the story became grindingly, exasperatingly tiresome.
From Rich Relatives by Compton MacKenzie
