Example sentences for: grounding

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

  • This point is brought home in the grounding of the prohibition against homicide in Genesis 9:6:

  • In its last few seasons, the show lost its grounding in reality.

  • The 737 inspections ordered by the FAA last week (which USAT alone led with on Friday) were apparently well warranted: 13 of the first 26 fuel main fuel pump wires checked showed wear on their insulation, says USAT . The WP is a little more reader-friendly about the actual number of planes involved: it says every one of the first 13 planes checked show some insulation chafing (the NYT , in its front-page story, says instead that this was true of a majority of the first 13 planes looked at), and that the grounding order affects 179 U.S. planes and 193 others worldwide.

  • USA Today and the Washington Post lead with the FAA's grounding of the oldest 737 passenger jets.

  • It goes without saying that most of those drawn to lexicography, like those attracted to art schools, exhibit skills more likely to be associated with craft than with art; these days, far too few of those who work on dictionaries have a thorough grounding in literature, let alone the various specialties within linguistics—general and comparative studies, classical and modern foreign language study, phonetics, philology, etymology, to say nothing of lexicology and lexicography.


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