Sentence examples for did not grind from inspiring English sources

A record-breaking 26.9 inches (68cm) of snow fell in Central Park on February 12th, and the city did not grind to a halt.

British tanks did not grind to a halt in the Mesopotamian sands, as many had done during an exercise in Oman in 2001.

The finding adds substantially to the evidence that human evolution did not grind to a halt in the distant past, as is tacitly assumed by many social scientists.

Nearly as remarkable as the deal itself was the number of moving parts involved in putting it together and the fact that they did not grind to a halt.

Which is why it may be tempting to draw the wrong lesson from the strike -- that since the city did not grind to a halt, mass transit does not matter here.

But flatfish evolution did not grind to a halt once both eyes ended up on the same side of the head.

Unlike Revolutionary-era pamphlets, the petition did not ground its case in political theory.

A situation like this happened in an ODI against Australia where he took a single when on 99, but he coasted and did not ground his bat.

Unlike Frazier, Ali went on fighting, the never-ending show continuing until one day it did not, grinding to an ignominious halt.

And according to the ship's captain, "If the propellers didn't grind him to mincemeat, then the sharks got him immediately".

The book's starting point is the abundant evidence from the genome that human evolution didn't grind to a halt thousands of years ago.