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Example sentences for: grit

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

We refuse to live uncomfortably, and in so doing lose all sorts of knowledge that can only come with the grit of hands-on labor.
Roseanne's finale after nine seasons leaves reviewers unimpressed, but it occasions encomiums for the show's working-class grit.
The city sites are untouched by the grit and idiosyncrasy that define urban living.
Stross could have written a fabulous book about how Microsoft's meritocracy produced a perfect monopoly, out of sheer grit and the love bestowed upon its team of managers by America's mutual funds (their fondness for Microsoft stock yielded a price that allowed the company, with its handsome stock-option compensation program, to hold on to its best, most talented players).
And the Post goes in for the most grit, repeating AP dispatches about one terrorist's spine flying through a shop window and a severed head laying in the street.