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Example sentences for: grounds

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

Large schools with acres of grounds, playing fields, and recreation areas are interspersed with sumptuous houses set in leafy lanes.
"[A]s the exuberant response of the Bombay stock market showed yesterday, there are some grounds for hoping that the new administration may enjoy a longer life than its predecessors.
Transubstantiation makes you queasy because it's the consumption of someone's body and blood, or on more philosophical grounds?
The White House reportedly tried to spike the story on security grounds, then condemned it as an invasion of Chelsea's privacy.
On the grounds that much of what we have to say today has been said (or written)--often better--before, it is hoped that the following will prove interesting and useful to those who do not have ready access to those early volumes (or the time to read them).