Grinds
[ɡraindz]
Examples
- Why, now comes my master, takes me right away from my work, and my friends, and all I like, and grinds me down into the very dirt! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- But when it is ready, it takes place, and grinds to pieces everything before it. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- The chief of machines with _ores_ is the _ore mill_, which not only breaks up the ore but grinds or pulverises it. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The world grinds on: we are a fly on the wheel. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
Checked by Cecily