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Example sentences for: grind

How can you use “grind” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

At the handsome equestrian statue of the canonized King Istvánn, old ladies trade Transylvanian tablecloths, zithers sing sweetly, and barrel-organs grind while classical buskers ﬁll the air with Bartók and Liszt.
But as I slavishly grind away at the keyboard coding my assigned arcana, I often observe my neuronic (or is it neurotic?)
The option of walking through the part clearly not available to him, he doesn't sleep through it either: Every muscle in this man's ruined body seems to strain against his fate while the wheels in his brain grind fiercely.
Stone doesn't have a political ax to grind this time out, and he lets the actors make whoopie.
He cites the ubiquity of the multicultural curriculum in the schools and the blithe acceptance of it even by teachers and administrators with no ethnic or ideological ax to grind.