Sentence examples for are ground down from inspiring English sources

In fact, gems are ground down, worn away.

The other half are ground down, the walking dead, living as if "it would be wrong to grumble, to express discontent, to make demands".

To make the mayo, the Canadian yellow peas are ground down into a powder and added to oil and other ingredients found in mayonnaise in place of egg.

This is what happens when services are ground down to the bone and it is not clear how open book accounting and transparency will make any difference.

But the action of the play doesn't bear out any of its ideas; whatever merits they may have are ground down under the lockstep march of the melodramatic plot.

The elements even in the nicest autofocus phone cameras are extremely small and (I'm guessing) are ground down from pieces too flawed to be used for large elements.

Like Frankie, Mike is ground down by responsibility, more so since Frankie lost her job.

In the whaling armageddon of the last century, the bones of great whales ended up being ground down for fertiliser.

In the bazaars, porters carry poles with reed baskets on the ends, filled with everything from water to rock salt, which is sold in pinkish-gray chunks before being ground down to powder.

In Britain, it has become a rude word the tabloids use for the entitlements of expensive, bothersome foreigners; they don't see vulnerable people trying to avoid being ground down by governments and armies.

When young children chew foods like peanuts, raw carrots and popcorn, some is ground down and some is not, and they tend to swallow unchewed bits of food that can block the airway or be inhaled into the bronchial tubes and lungs.