Sentence examples for and the grind of from inspiring English sources

And the grind of a five-set comeback often makes the next match a dud.

The songs are about tennis and the grind of the tour.

Roth: You forget the bumps and bruises and the grind of playing day in, day out, week in, week out.

That means more selective lending, in order to keep asset growth under control, and the grind of rebuilding capital through retained profits.

Yet their depiction of the Goldens' courtship, marital clashes, and the grind of show business has a gritty ring of truth.

Then, when things went back to normal and the grind of daily chores had to be done, people went to find something better.

There was a click of cameras and the grinding of newsreels.

Clattering dice, shuffling counters and the grinding of mental gears echo through the hotel bar late into the night.

This time, there was little looting, officials said, and the grinding of iron store gates being forced up and the shattering of glass was absent.

He was a real opportunist who thought, like Blair, that politics was about electoral success and the grinding of his enemies into the political dust.

"There are thrills as the shriek of the whistle and the grinding of the brakes tell that the driver is trying to stop his train before it runs over some Indian driving his pack mule," says my 1930 guide.