How to Use grind on in a Sentence

grind on

verb
  • Amid the twinkling stars of a far-distant galaxy, life grinds on.
    — Lewis Gordon, Vulture, 3 Dec. 2025
  • Baseball is a tough grind on families.
    — Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 11 May 2026
  • So does Bill Guerin keep grinding on Kaprizov or try to trade him?
    — Jonas Siegel, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Heating your home and cooking food with natural gas are also likely to cost more as the war grinds on.
    — ABC News, 9 Mar. 2026
  • Heating your home and cooking food with natural gas are also likely to cost more as the war grinds on.
    — Cathy Bussewitz, Chicago Tribune, 14 Mar. 2026
  • Three years and nine months after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the war grinds on.
    — Ian Bremmer, Time, 20 Nov. 2025
  • If the peace talks fall apart, a war that has claimed hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian and Russian lives, will grind on.
    — Anatol Lieven, Time, 28 Nov. 2025
  • Pouring your leftover morning coffee grinds on your hydrangea soil won't result in blue blooms by mid-afternoon.
    — Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 9 May 2026
  • But as the current standoff grinds on, such workarounds may become impossible.
    — Andrea Riquier, USA Today, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Over four years after Russia’s invasion, the war in Ukraine continues to grind on.
    — Natasha Lindstaedt, Forbes.com, 24 May 2026
  • But as the war grinds on, analysts warn Pakistan’s room for neutrality is shrinking.
    — Kyra Colah, FOXNews.com, 23 Mar. 2026
  • Trump’s approval ratings have fallen to below forty per cent, the Iran war grinds on, and gas prices have been rising, as has inflation.
    — Amy Davidson Sorkin, New Yorker, 17 May 2026
  • There are some shows in Las Vegas where the dancers bump and grind on the stage or on poles or whatever, but show girls are very much the opposite.
    — Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Ukraine rejects all these demands and says negotiations on a comprehensive peace deal would go nowhere, while the fighting would grind on.
    — Greg Myre, NPR, 17 Aug. 2025
  • Krups coffee grinder cons The grind on a Krups coffee grinder depends on the experience of the person using it.
    — Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 20 Apr. 2026
  • The lucky fan of her choosing would then be strapped down to a stretcher, where Jackson would sing to him, touch him flirtatiously, and even straddle and grind on him.
    — Al Shipley, SPIN, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Humanitarian agencies say millions remain in need of food, heat and medical care as the fighting grinds on with no clear end in sight.
    — Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Nov. 2025
  • The novel’s power lies in its relentless banality—the mind churning while life’s machinery grinds on.
    — The New Yorker, New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2025
  • As the partial government shutdown grinds on, with no end in sight, Catherine Cortez Masto stands ready to end it right now.
    — Mark Z. Barabak, Mercury News, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The very best often pick up a racket as children, head to academy coaches by their 10th birthday and grind on the junior circuits for years.
    — Rustin Dodd, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The scenes between Sally and Theo are more convincing, but the dynamic between them grinds on snappishly.
    — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2026
  • That timeline represents years of sacrifice from both the golfer grinding on the course and the family holding everything together around him.
    — Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 16 Mar. 2026
  • The war in Ukraine has ground on for more than four years since Russia launched its full-scale invasion in February 2022.
    — Reuters, NBC news, 2 June 2026
  • Such incidents have grown more frequent as the Israeli military’s deadly operation in Gaza grinds on.
    — Hussein Ibish, The Atlantic, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Keys recently recalled grinding on the indies with Fatu in an interview with Fox News Digital.
    — Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 9 May 2026
  • Outside of Danny grinding on women without their consent, does his dancing really merit a preemptive warning?
    — Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 2 July 2026
  • American militia sought revenge for these raids, skeptical of Christian Indians’ claims of neutrality as the war ground on.
    — Literary Hub, 13 Mar. 2026
  • The war with Iran is grinding on with muddled goals, more service members heading overseas, rising energy prices, and growing Republican fears of ground troops.
    — Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 25 Mar. 2026
  • For now, the Ukrainian government is trying to prepare the country for a war that will grind on for at least several more years, regardless of what the White House decides.
    — Dexter Filkins, New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2026
  • In Sri Lanka, the World Food Program says a third of all children are malnourished, and experts here say there'll be more hunger, and more poverty, as the war grinds on.
    — Diaa Hadid, NPR, 16 Apr. 2026

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