Example Sentences

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Mahmoud Shalabi, a local medical aid worker in Beit Lahia, said people had been grinding grains used for animal feed into flour, but that even that was now running out.

From BBC • Feb. 10, 2024

Even those crazy-grueling three weeks of IB essay exams, which Marin had been grinding toward for four years - and yes, anticipating - were canceled.

From Washington Times • May 17, 2020

Meanwhile Congress had been grinding the unimpressive but all important grist of appropriations which will keep the Government functioning to June 30, 1927.

From Time Magazine Archive

The glacier had been over these mountainsides, in the hundreds of thousands of years it had been grinding back and forth across the North.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

After we had been grinding out daily themes for three weeks we began to long for something to break the monotony.

From Beatrice Leigh at College A Story for Girls by Schwartz, Julia Augusta