How to Use grind down in a Sentence

grind down

phrasal verb
Definition of grind downnext
  • Grinding bit: The grinding bit is the part that spins to grind down your pooch's nails.
    — Lauren Corona, Chicago Tribune, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Yet the Algerians found ways to grind down the French army and to sap support in Paris for the war.
    — Liana Fix, Foreign Affairs, 4 Mar. 2022
  • The hearts of the plant, also known as the piñas, are cut out, cooked, ground down, and fermented to make tequila.
    — Lauren Hubbard, Town & Country, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Licking the plate is out, as is grasping the toast firmly in your fist and using it to grind down everything in its way.
    — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2023
  • This one is here, and that one is there, its neighbor next to both, old friends grinding down shards of philosophy.
    — Janet MacFadyen, Scientific American, 1 May 2020
  • The catamaran cuts up the Kona coast past striking black-sand beaches made by lava boulders that have been ground down by the waves over the past 150 years.
    — Hugh Garvey, Sunset Magazine, 1 Jan. 2024
  • Those hopes are battling against worries that the Fed will keep interest rates high for longer, which could grind down the economy.
    — Elaine Kurtenbach, ajc, 21 June 2023
  • After about four to eight hours, the mixture will have been ground down and dehydrated and is ready to add to your garden or a larger compost bin.
    — Samantha Jones, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 June 2023
  • The Tide ran it on every play, grinding down the clock and leaning on a South Florida defense that finally wore down.
    — Michael Casagrande | [email protected], al, 19 Sep. 2023
  • The Fed has already pulled its main interest rate to the highest level since 2001 in hopes of grinding down high inflation.
    — Stan Choe, Fortune, 13 Feb. 2024
  • That won’t fly in its new conference, where teams like Michigan or Penn State will be content to use their rushing attacks to grind down the Trojans.
    — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 30 July 2024
  • And Israel has now spent a year grinding down both Hamas’s military and the territory.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 12 Sep. 2024
  • The Fed has been keeping its main interest rate at a two-decade high in hopes of grinding down on the economy enough to stifle high inflation.
    — Stan Choe, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2024
  • What to look for in a dog nail grinder Grinding speed: Higher rotation speeds grind down canine nails quickly but give you less control over length and shape.
    — Lauren Corona, Chicago Tribune, 19 Apr. 2023
  • As those lyrics suggest, Segarra is making a class critique about the way that our society grinds down on the vulnerable.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 23 Feb. 2024
  • The next high tide will sweep this huge pile of geological history into the ocean, where it will be ground down and eventually returned to the shore as fresh sand.
    — Rosanna Xia, Los Angeles Times, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Flour is a fine powder made from grinding down grains, typically wheat, but can be made from any dry grain including maize, rice, barley, rye, and oats.
    — Perri Ormont Blumberg, Southern Living, 20 July 2023
  • Flour is a fine powder made from grinding down grains, typically wheat, but can be made from any dry grain including maize, rice, barley, rye, and oats.
    — Perri Ormont Blumberg, Southern Living, 4 Sep. 2024
  • Those hopes are battling against worries that stubborn inflation will force the Fed to keep interest rates higher for longer, which could grind down the economy.
    — Stan Choe, Chicago Tribune, 20 June 2023
  • Finally, Russian air power, missiles, and suicide drones will attempt to grind down the Ukrainian spearheads and force the offensive to lose steam.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 16 May 2023
  • Denker was a bit taken aback post-race, because the only feedback received from drivers testing the track on their simulators was that the right side of the braking zone needed to be ground down.
    — Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 5 June 2023
  • Basically, the act of grinding down food into a digestible state wears teeth at a reasonably predictable rate of about one millimeter per year.
    — Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Anything reusable will end up in often-vast secondhand shoe markets in the global South, where a skilled local workforce grinds down and bleaches their soles to whiten them, washes uppers, and adds new laces.
    — Cassie Werber, Quartz, 13 June 2023
  • The inflation data helped to buoy hopes on Wall Street that the Fed may actually pull off the balancing act of slowing the economy and hurting investment prices just enough to grind down inflation, but not so much as to cause a painful recession.
    — Stan Choe, Fortune, 14 Nov. 2023
  • High interest rates meant to grind down inflation have hurt the housing market and manufacturing in particular, while lower-income households are showing signs of struggling to keep up with still-rising prices.
    — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 20 June 2024
  • Cardboard’s unparalleled utility, its near-magical ability to vanish once it’s no longer needed — none of it changes its primary function or how many people are ground down by just this one facet of our insatiable lust for more things.
    — Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2023
  • When comparing past evidence of vegetation and the diets of elephants from seven million years ago, scientists found an increase of grasslands and grass-feeding elephants with specialized teeth designed to grind down grasses.
    — Elizabeth Gamillo, Discover Magazine, 5 Sep. 2023

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