Sentence examples for grinding him down from inspiring English sources

In the semifinal, Nakamura dispatched Karpov, and he beat Ivanchuk in the final by grinding him down in the deciding game.

"The bank was grinding him down," Orasco says, rubbing his eyes.

His grades were excellent, but the amount of homework was grinding him down.

"I ground him down," she observes bluntly.

Swagger grinds him down and hooks in the Patriot Lock for the tap out.

It is the chronic crisis that grinds him down, him and the nearly 700,000 other Russian physicians.

The theory is that though she can't beat him for inspiration she can grind him down in face-to-face combat, and there is no doubt that she is the better debater.

Or that the finely-tuned machinery of the Republican party juggernaut would grind him down and push him out, choosing a lesser evil to represent them at the polls in November.

After my parents divorced, my mother married again to a nice man with silver hair and a Maine accent who loved her deeply, but who had a series of long and ugly strokes that ground him down and drained his life for five eternal years until finally he begged her to let him die to get relief from the horror of lifeless living.

Well, he's one of the mid-list guys whose falling sales have ground him down.

I felt going into the race that there was only one way to beat him: for the Kenyans to trade the lead and try to grind him down.