How to Use grind in a Sentence
- The steel grinds to a sharp edge.
- I could hear the gears grinding.
- The corn is ground into meal.
- He grinds his teeth in his sleep.
- She kept grinding the car's gears.
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Since then, the case has ground to a near-halt.
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Jakob Rodgers,
Mercury News,
22 Jan. 2026
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The Jags can grind it out or blow you out.
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Mike Bianchi,
The Orlando Sentinel,
10 Jan. 2026
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When an army wins by grinding it out.
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Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
12 Dec. 2025
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The dark dirt from the rails grinding was nasty.
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David Kamp,
New Yorker,
9 Feb. 2026
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For years, the business rhetoric has been to grind.
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Jodie Cook,
Forbes.com,
18 Sep. 2025
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At bottom, that’s the thing that grinds my gears.
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Literary Hub,
21 Oct. 2025
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Ryan Murphy has an ax to grind.
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Jason P. Frank,
Vulture,
9 Oct. 2025
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Clean and chop roots, roast until deep brown, then grind and brew.
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Ryan Brennan,
Charlotte Observer,
30 Apr. 2026
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Clean and chop the roots, roast until deep brown, then grind and brew.
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Ryan Brennan,
Miami Herald,
30 Apr. 2026
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The war could grind the AI build-out to a halt.
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Matteo Wong,
The Atlantic,
26 Mar. 2026
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Was able to grind it out there for seven innings.
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Jaylon Thompson,
Kansas City Star,
11 June 2026
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But to grind it out when the odds may not be in your favor is what counts.
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ABC News,
15 Mar. 2026
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Those are just people with axes to grind against us.
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Marcos Breton,
Sacbee.com,
24 Mar. 2026
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We are thrown into the world and land where our mothers ground us.
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Philip Kennicott,
Washington Post,
26 Aug. 2023
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Six weeks on screen can equal years of grinding for growth online.
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Amanda Marcovitch,
Forbes.com,
29 Aug. 2025
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What exactly does ground beef taste like, if frozen too long?
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Lisa Cericola,
Southern Living,
19 Apr. 2026
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Their offensive flow grinds to a halt.
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Hunter Patterson,
New York Times,
12 May 2026
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Many scenes grind to a halt with the shy girl too terrified to speak.
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Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
18 June 2026
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Her grinding against the moss is as rhythmic as the beat of a metronome.
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Agnieszka Szpila,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Mar. 2026
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But in the last five weeks, that traffic has come to a grinding halt.
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Npr Staff,
NPR,
9 Apr. 2026
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Many came from grinding poverty and squalor.
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Alexandra Schwartz,
New Yorker,
9 Feb. 2026
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Your guys go out there and grind their (behind) off for eight innings.
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Kansas City Star,
9 July 2026
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At the lakeside, the sound of a saw grinding against stone filled the air.
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Emily Brindley,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
25 Feb. 2026
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And then, the whole stuff about grinding bones and spreading them on crops.
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Anna Clark,
ProPublica,
17 Apr. 2023
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Burr grinders are better for grinding one to two cups of beans at a time.
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Bestreviews,
Chicago Tribune,
18 Aug. 2025
- I need a break from the daily grind.
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And the day in, day out grind and all.
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David O'Brien,
New York Times,
1 Oct. 2025
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See the grit, see the grind and see the shine.
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Angelique Jackson,
Variety,
3 Mar. 2026
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Top each with a grind of pepper.
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Carla Lalli Music,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
10 Mar. 2026
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Gets my mind off of the daily grind.
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Charlie Lapastora,
CBS News,
16 May 2026
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There was plenty of grind to go around.
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Andrew Filev,
Fortune,
30 Aug. 2025
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Kerr still yearns for the daily grind.
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Nick Friedell,
New York Times,
14 May 2026
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Take a break from the daily grind.
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Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
18 May 2026
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But what about the mental grind?
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Sam McDowell 12,
Kansas City Star,
12 Dec. 2025
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After that, a few more weeks of grind await.
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Steph Koyfman,
Condé Nast Traveler,
29 Apr. 2026
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That’s not the end of the grind, either.
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Corey Masisak,
Denver Post,
31 Jan. 2026
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And that’s staying away from a grind-it-out type of flow.
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Roderick Boone,
Charlotte Observer,
13 Apr. 2026
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The way out is not endless grind and more revenue.
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Lien De Pau,
Forbes.com,
31 Aug. 2025
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Finish with a few grinds of black pepper and serve.
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Nancy Vienneau,
Southern Living,
11 Mar. 2026
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Thirty-nine days is a real grind.
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Dalton Ross,
Entertainment Weekly,
16 June 2026
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Hiding the truth will only land you in a role that feels like a grind.
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Eli Rubel,
CNBC,
18 Aug. 2025
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And Destiny 2 has had some bad grinds in the past.
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Paul Tassi,
Forbes.com,
25 Aug. 2025
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Use this moment—the early grind, the slow climb—as your forge.
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Joel Goldstein,
Forbes.com,
14 Aug. 2025
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Edge of Fate’s grind here is worse than both for many, many reasons.
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Paul Tassi,
Forbes.com,
25 Aug. 2025
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Proof that the small things, the grind, the heat, the first sip, make the big things bearable.
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John Noakes,
Hartford Courant,
31 Jan. 2026
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The moments grew too large amid a Big Ten grind.
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Mitch Sherman,
New York Times,
5 Mar. 2026
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There’s no substitute to the grind.
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Liz Hoffman,
semafor.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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There’s no substitute for the grind.
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Teddy Wayne,
New Yorker,
5 Jan. 2026
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Training was, simply put, a grind.
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Mac Cerullo,
Boston Herald,
22 Apr. 2026
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And keeping up with the app day after day became a grind.
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Gilad Edelman,
The Atlantic,
15 Mar. 2026
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Guns break far, far too fast which just adds to the grind in the least fun way possible.
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Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
14 May 2026
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Time will tell how Rielly looks through the grind of a season.
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Joshua Kloke,
New York Times,
2 Oct. 2025
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Season with a large pinch salt and a couple of grinds of pepper.
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Jamie Schler,
Charlotte Observer,
31 Jan. 2024
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This was a grit and grind kind of win for head coach Scott Drew and his unit.
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Dallas News,
28 Jan. 2023
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The first period set the tone for the contest to be a grind of a game.
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Steve Conroy,
Boston Herald,
11 Mar. 2026
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