How to Use grind down in a Sentence

grind down

verb
  • The Jays ground down Hunter Brown, one of the game’s best starters.
    — Mitch Bannon, New York Times, 23 June 2026
  • So Minnesota has decided to grind down the pace.
    — Andy Greder, Twin Cities, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Whole herbs and roots use the plant in its most natural state, while powders are ground down into an easy-to-mix format.
    — Ryan Brennan, Charlotte Observer, 7 May 2026
  • Higher Treasury yields grind down on prices for all kinds of investments, from stocks to crypto to gold.
    — Stan Choe, Chicago Tribune, 18 Mar. 2026
  • Higher Treasury yields grind down on prices for all kinds of investments, from stocks to crypto to gold.
    — Arkansas Online, 19 Mar. 2026
  • Crews will first grind down the old surface and then lay down new asphalt in a project that officials say will run until mid-summer.
    — Jim Riccioli, jsonline.com, 3 Mar. 2026
  • What happened next was a lesson in how the small business lending system can grind down even the most resilient entrepreneurs.
    — Elizabeth MacBride, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Higher Treasury yields also grind down on prices for all kinds of investments, from stocks to crypto to gold.
    — Stan Choe, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2026
  • Voters, however, felt ground down by weak growth, post-pandemic inflation and low salaries.
    — Lionel Laurent, Twin Cities, 17 Apr. 2026
  • His strategy to grind down his intended victim—with its much smaller population—by a war of attrition is faltering.
    — Steve Forbes, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
  • Still, the voice of Ethel, who has yet to be ground down by the traumas that eventually turn her into a symbol of female victimhood, has never been clearer.
    — Holden Seidlitz, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2025
  • Investors are growing concerned that a prolonged spike could strain households' ability to spend, grind down the global economy and push interest rates higher.
    — CBS News, 5 Mar. 2026
  • And so the Jays did, piling up one quality at-bat after another, grinding down Snell, pounding the Dodgers’ suspect bullpen.
    — Ken Rosenthal, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Moscow knows this, but keeps going back to it in the hope that eventually Trump is ground down into seeing this concession as a necessary part of any solution.
    — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 21 Nov. 2025
  • Sharp increases there are raising worries that a long-term surge could grind down the global economy, exhaust households’ ability to spend and push interest rates higher.
    — Stan Choe, Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Those recommendations can include removing piles of wood outside, removing any ground-contact wood on your property and grinding down tree stumps.
    — Dan Simms, USA Today, 12 May 2026
  • Zelensky knows that in the long run, Russia’s superior numbers and weaponry will grind down Ukrainian resistance.
    — Tim Lister, CNN Money, 19 Aug. 2025
  • To get inflation down to the Fed’s goal of 2%, for example, may require the unpopular choice to keep interest rates high and grind down on the economy for a while.
    — Stan Choe, Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2026
  • To get inflation down to the Fed’s goal of 2%, for example, may require the unpopular choice to keep interest rates high and grind down on the economy for a while.
    — Stan Choe, Fortune, 31 Jan. 2026
  • Oil prices have soared as Iranian attacks have disrupted traffic through the strait, and global stock markets have been hammered over worries that the spike in oil prices may grind down the world economy.
    — Jon Gambrell, Chicago Tribune, 4 Mar. 2026
  • Construction includes grinding down and removing the existing asphalt before applying a new surface.
    — Da Lin, CBS News, 26 Apr. 2026
  • The decision was made to part company with the former Burnley and Everton manager, with the players having been ground down by Dyche’s focus on physicality in training.
    — Paul Taylor, New York Times, 11 May 2026
  • Once-influential leftist factions—the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine—have been ground down by decades of arrests, exile, funding collapse, and irrelevance.
    — Mohammed R. Mhawish, New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2025

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