Sentence examples for car grinding from inspiring English sources

Sometimes I remember our car grinding in slow motion off the gravel shoulder and totaling itself benignly against a rotten tree stump.

Here, in the middle of grain and soybean fields that stretch as far as the eye can see, away from neon lights that point the way to megamalls and maximarts, there are only the stars at night, the occasional car grinding down a gravel road, and the stillness of a country night.

Information on ownership of a radio, bicycle, motor car, grinding machine and motorcycle together with the weekly per capita cost of food was used to generate the SES index.

One block on, the car grinds to a halt.

Finally the car grinds to a halt, and the driver, catching my eye in his rear-view mirror, gives a nod.

"And this," he announces, as the car grinds to a halt, "is the YMCA".

Neighbourhood groups objected to the idea of cars grinding past their bedroom windows.

All day, trucks, buses and cars grind past.

We rebuilt the chassis and reskinned the car by grinding the body down and adding layers and layers of fiberglass".

Such a car may grind to a halt, but would probably not overturn.

(Don't tell the Swiss traffic police, but the car almost ground to a halt on one flatter fragment of the motorway, before picking up speed again on another downhill section).