Sentence examples for and grinding to a from inspiring English sources

Most of the machines failed immediately, digging into the particulate and grinding to a halt.

Construction is all about balance though – elements like energy and power-to-weight ratio come into play so you can't build massive armoured monsters without hugely increasing power consumption and grinding to a near halt.

Football may have came home in 1996 and evolved into the well-oiled PR machine that we witness today, but 10 years earlier the sport was juddering and grinding to a halt on the hard shoulder.

When I think about the consequences of debt, I think about things slowing down and grinding to a halt.

Fostering trust and a solid working relationship can be the difference between sparking great ideas and moving forward in a mutually supported productive fashion, and grinding to a halt as one or both sides aren't on board with the plan.

Transfer to a food processor (or pestle and mortar) and grind to a fine paste.

The city seemed to both come alive and grind to a halt.

These flowing lines rattle into a mundane list of "demons" and grind to a halt with the bland statement: "All lived lives are a mess".

Once dried and ground to a precise size, pigments are mixed with a commercial binder and applied to a metallic substrate to study their properties.

Back in 1995 Bob Metcalfe, an internet guru and the founder of 3Com, a network-equipment maker, predicted in a magazine article that the internet would suffer "gigalapses" and grind to a halt by the end of 1996.

Like three or four other songs, it rambles and grinds to a halt, as though it hasn't been finished properly.