Grinding

//ˈɡɹaɪnd.ɪŋ//

"Grinding" in a Sentence (18 examples)

I find that I get the best flavor by grinding fresh peppercorns.

This decision was accepted with grinding teeth.

Grinding coffee beans makes me think of all the things I haven't accomplished in life.

The Parks Department is having dividers added to the tops of all park benches to prevent skateboarders from grinding their boards along the edges.

I'm finely grinding the chilies.

What causes teeth grinding?

Ease up! You're grinding the gears.

The hard drive is grinding away.

I'm not grinding their coffee.

Like on nearly every previous test day, airplane flight patterns will be diverted away from some 1,300 testing locations nationwide, the country’s stock market will open late and all nearby construction will come to a grinding halt in hopes of eliminating potential distractions.

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Ominous creakings and grindings came from the innards of the machine.

Grinding sometimes involves tight tolerances on the order of a few microns.

No grinding is allowed on the dance floor at the junior prom: it isn't age-appropriate.

I really hate the grinding to get that 1% chance item.

A: Hey Bob, how's it goin? B: Meh, I'm tired of grinding, man.

The meeting came to a grinding halt when the two sides could not agree.

A week of filled with grinding toil.

I saw none of the grinding poverty to which I had become inured, no beggars, no one passed out in the streets or homeless people forced to camp out in parks and doorways.

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