Sentence examples for grinding down from inspiring English sources

It was as if his brain were grinding down.

It is like a deliberate grinding down process.

He believes teams succeed by grinding down opponents, outworking, outthinking and outhustling them.

In Basra, British forces are grinding down what remains of Iraqi resistance there.

It had been used as a smooth surface for grinding down rat poison.

They made it by grinding down actual cow bones," she explains.

The point summed up the match, with Djokovic relentless in his accuracy and finally grinding down his opponent.

It's about teenage masculinity, and about a moribund teaching system dedicated to grinding down individuality through systematic humiliation.

For months at a time, he stopped telling jokes and concentrated on grinding down his opponent, Ken Livingstone.

"We're grinding down the regime," said Maj. Gen. Stephen Schmidt, an American officer who commands two dozen NATO and British Awacs planes.

Once content with a strategy of attrition, standing far behind the baseline and grinding down opponents with ground strokes, he now moved forward and attacked continuously.