Sentence examples for ground the thinking from inspiring English sources

But the president did answer the question, and he didn't give much ground: "The thinking on the public option has been that it gives consumers more choices and it helps keep the private sector honest, because there's some competition out there".

If both the public, which is strongly behind the military, and the Pentagon itself, which has almost complete control over access to combat, turn against the news media, it could take months before any journalist came close to operations on the ground, the thinking goes.

Had the planes not been grounded, the thinking goes, a month from now they'd be bursting into flames and dropping from the sky.

I was grabbing the dust from the ground, thinking that he was in the dust".

The guy beside my friend in the male lineup sat on the ground, thinking he had heatstroke.

For instance, you can stick your finger into a pot of dirt and keep it there for as long as you wish, all the time feeling the cold coarseness of the ground and thinking about other places that are cold and coarse in which you had your finger.

Cheryl Grant spent decades of her life working herself into the ground, thinking that overtime pay would bring her the security and fulfillment she craved.

You know, he's standing there beating it 350 down the middle, and I put my tee in the ground thinking there's not really a lot of point in me hitting this tee shot and find myself throwing myself at it, and literally it kind of didn't help my game much at Medinah playing better-ball with him.

The whole album brims with that kind of realist sentimentality — ten-cent yellow hat, rotten fruit kicked off a path, groundhog eating the lettuce right out of the ground, idly thinking about going to see a jazz band in town.

"I was stamping my feet on the ground, thinking, What a terrible place," he said.

I was about three feet from the ground, thinking: 'Who is this?