Sentence examples for grind back and forth from inspiring English sources

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The two valves, held against the rock, grind back and forth by the alternate contraction of two adductor muscles; the grinding slowly produces a tunnel.

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The capybara's jaw hinge is not perpendicular and they thus chew food by grinding back-and-forth rather than side-to-side.

The Shen Neng 1 crashed onto a shoal near the southern end of the reef on April 3, then ground back and forth against the nearby coral until it was refloated late Monday.

"Grinding" back and forth on her bike she visits the local Co-op and makes purchases: "A 50p bunch of watercress that had started to rot"; a liver casserole ready meal, which she boiled up "to make it safe"; the "remains" of a swede; a fat-reduced garlic dip for 15p ("if it isn't nice, it isn't a disaster").

The back-and-forth continues for weeks.

There is back-and-forth on this.

It's a back-and-forth conversation.

Eventually I realized that the thrill of "Blue Nights" is precisely the thrill of those last two minutes in the air: the surge of expectation that comes as the wing flaps drop, the air brakes rise and the plane grinds forward, rocking gently, back and forth, over the water.

During grinding, the grinding wheel rotated clockwise, and the working table was moved back and forth; thus, both up and down grinding were performed during the operation.

As the seventh car rocked back and forth before grinding to a halt, a passenger in it, Jeffrey F. Broderick, 47, a lawyer, stood up from his seat at the front of the car and pulled the emergency brake cord that was directly above his head.

The movie clicks back and forth between these three as they grind — scrubbing, whispering, and weeping — through their daily chores.

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