Sentence examples for grinds him from inspiring English sources

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.

Alistair Langford is a prosecution lawyer who contrives to ruin his career by accidentally (or that's his excuse) sleeping with a witness for the defence; meanwhile his son Luke is obsessed with a highly strung but beautiful actress who grinds him under her pretty heel until he can take no more.

They need a replacement -- fast -- and the unknown Rocky is suddenly shoved into the spotlight with the chance of a lifetime: he's guaranteed a huge purse and, who knows, maybe he'll get in a few good licks before the champ grinds him into the ground.

"I ground him down," she observes bluntly.

"We don't want to grind him in the dirt," Coach Mike D'Antoni said.

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

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

Over the longer form, the idea anyone could grind him out of the match seems ridiculous.

"When we're on tour, I can't exactly ground him," said Ms. Mallette, 34, a petite, tough-minded woman.

I tried to use humor to ground him, and said, "Why are you always bragging about meeting these people?