Sentence examples for ground the answer from inspiring English sources

When you wrote this short story, "Night Shade," were you a member of the Communist Party? A. I decline to answer on the ground the answer may tend to incriminate me.

But even if we weren't winning on the ground, the answer would not be to call up more reservists, but to train more Iraqis to do this kind of work.

"Oil under the ground," comes the answer.

I think I decline to answer that on the ground that the answer might tend to incriminate me.

Q. Were you a member of the Communist Party in 1922? A. I decline to answer on the ground that the answer might tend to incriminate me.

Q. Are you a member of the Communist Party today? A. I decline to answer on the ground that the answer would tend to incriminate me, pleading my rights under the Fifth Amendment.

Inspirational Grounds is the answer to an increasing demand.

And of course, when catastrophic flooding hit South Carolina in early October, hundreds of Red Crossers were on the ground to answer the call for help.

Or he could take the Fifth — that is, refuse to answer on the grounds that the answers might incriminate him.

Europe clearly does not say the middle-ground left has the answer.

Some, he said, had asked, "How can I get in on the ground floor?" (Answer, according to the associate: "There is no ground floor").