Sentence examples for grind down in from inspiring English sources

But that was before the game and the Yankees began to grind down in Anaheim.

Nippon Machine Orders Grind Down In March.

David Ferrer, whom Murray ground down in the quarter-finals, leads everyone with 309 points from 560 back-of-the-court exchanges (55 per cent).

But if you don't ever change the oil and your basic engine grinds down, in five years you can't drive it and it won't last very long".

Like one of those Henry James characters who seem primed for a sparkling destiny only to be ground down in the jaws of an unrelenting fate, she returns to teach in her old school.

Of course, in the past, settlements have always been reached, the parties going away disgruntled and persuaded again that there is no principle in writing for pictures, that numbers can always be ground down in the last, Evian-filled room.

"It was doing well in the 50s; it was starting to have problems in the 1970s, but not totally; it was grinding down in the 80s before the end of the socialist block.

Jonny Bairstow, who fell for 95, was ground down in the nineties - you could feel the pressure mounting on him.

But the 21-year-old Paszek's commendable resolve was finally ground down in the tie-breaker, Azarenka prevailing 7-4.

Monaco battled hard at the start of the first set but was ground down in game five and Nadal never looked back.

Had the knee-jerk liberals had their way, the Obama Administration would have done nothing for fear of becoming ground down in another Iraqi war we could not win.