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Example sentences for: grinding

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In Newsday , James Wood optimistically proposes the latter: "One feels behind the postmodernism an old realist modernist grinding away, eager to notate reality (though in funky ways)."
Despite its considerable oil reserves and mineral wealth, debt, booming population growth, and grinding poverty have crippled the economy of modern Mexico.
In horse-drawn carts you visit costumed villagers tilling and harvesting, sheep-shearing, grinding flour in the mill, weaving, and fashioning horseshoes in the smithy.
They sit at the kitchen table for hours, "grinding the jagged edge of memories, hammering the unspeakable into forms of words."
And society, in setting its rules, cannot possibly value each person's life at $46 million, without grinding to a halt.