How to Use grind away in a Sentence

grind away

verb
  • An autonomous agent that grinds away for two days can also be wrong for two days.
    — Janakiram Msv, Forbes.com, 13 June 2026
  • But it’s lost on these boys, whose youth has been ground away by the drug trade’s meaningless brutality.
    — Ew Staff, Entertainment Weekly, 25 June 2026
  • Once the cutting wheel begins to make contact with the stump, move it from side to side and forward and back as needed to slowly grind away the tree stump.
    — Steven John, Architectural Digest, 13 Feb. 2026
  • Our protagonist, Kinga, forty and single, grinds away at a corporate job.
    — Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2025
  • The rumor mill was grinding away ahead of Metallica’s lone show in the Sunshine State.
    — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 13 Nov. 2025
  • The training camp in Kazan was no picnic, living in spartan dorm rooms, eating bland food, no one speaking English, grinding away in the gym all day.
    — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Discussions kept grinding away, quietly.
    — Chris Yogerst, HollywoodReporter, 16 Jan. 2026
  • That overheated preseason hyperbole didn’t make it through the day-to-day challenges of a 162-game season that grinds away at even the most talented roster.
    — Bill Plunkett, Oc Register, 26 Sep. 2025
  • The arch was formed by centuries of harsh wind and high seas grinding away at the Calcarenite stone cliffs of Italy’s Puglia region, on the turquoise waters of the Adriatic Sea.
    — Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Money, 16 Feb. 2026
  • The Hurricanes seemed content to grind away at the Rebels in small chunks offensively, setting up CharMar Brown’s four-yard touchdown run and a field goal.
    — Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2026
  • The Hurricanes seemed content to grind away at the Rebels in small chunks offensively, setting up CharMar Brown’s 4-yard touchdown run and a field goal.
    — Fiifi Frimpong, New York Daily News, 9 Jan. 2026
  • The Hurricanes seemed content to grind away at the Rebels in small chunks offensively, setting up CharMar Brown’s 4-yard touchdown run and a field goal.
    — Dallas Morning News, 8 Jan. 2026
  • That means some fans have already been grinding away on their MyCareer players, building up their fantasy MyTeams and perusing the game’s vast selection of sneakers.
    — Riley Jones, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
  • But the humor concealed a relentless dedication that could mean long hours grinding away at stories and challenging sources and story subjects to get at the truth, Morrissey and Herald colleagues recalled.
    — Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 1 May 2026
  • Despite Ukraine’s stalwart defense, Russia has gained the upper hand on nearly every front, slowly grinding away the Ukrainian armed forces while hopes of a Russian economic collapse remain elusive.
    — Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 9 Aug. 2025

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