Sentence examples for grinds like a from inspiring English sources

Johnny seems perversely blind to the social metaphors that surround him, focused instead on his own devouring ambition and haunted in his dreams by the tiny, superimposed figure of his left-behind sweetheart, who bumps and grinds like a libidinous Tinker Bell.

Ultraviolet is astonishing: it whirrs, it shivers, twig whispers and the music grinds like a gorgeous strain of industrial, or muzak for a horror film, with ugly chopped and screwed voices trying their best to tarnish the effect of twig's super-melodious coo.

A rich meal of pork lies on a man's stomach, "churning and grinding like a litter of soon-to-be-born piglets".

The bad thing about the belt is that, unless you're grinding like a millstone, the Wii registers no movement whatsoever.

In the corridor, you could hear an autoclave grinding like a hotel icemaker, sterilizing every piece of lab equipment and protective gear that came into contact with the pathogenic agents inside.

— While Phil Mickelson, the 18- and 36-hole leader, was grinding like a pepper mill Saturday at the Phoenix Open, Padraig Harrington kicked footballs into the crowd at T.P.C. Scottsdale's signature par-3 16th.

Another guy's jaws are grinding like a millstone.

Their latest album, Nightlife in Tokyo (on the Viennese label Angelicka Koehlermann), includes awesome electro covers of Frank Zappa's "Bobby Brown," The Who's "Acid Queen," and Laid Back's disco staple "White Horse," which is so wild and screamy it makes women wearing high-heeled sandals over anklet socks with little red hearts on them climb up on the bar and grind like a slut.

The clumsy, wooden, screen adaptation of Michael Crichton's novel "Timeline" suggests a particularly wretched episode of "Star Trek" tricked out with fancy fireworks and weighed down with a score that grinds away like a cement mixer.

My driver's side brake started making a grinding sound, like a dentist with a grudge.

After that, there came Danny's ferocious samba – Danny sporting his winning shirt-not-done-up look, grinding away like a Ken doll on heat.