Sentence examples for grounding him from inspiring English sources

They discussed stopping pocket money, grounding him, or perhaps cancelling promised treats.

The books have been his anchor, he said, grounding him not to reality, but to distant times, faraway places and magical corners of his imagination, where heroin does not command him to do the bad things he has done.

What the Jets were most curious to discover about him was how he would handle an environment that was less controlled, without the red no-contact jersey and with snarling defenders intent on grounding him into the turf.

I don't really want to write this story simply because it isn't really about tech — it's about a crazy kid rebelling against his parents in a perverse way — but apparently Cory Ryder, a 16-year-old from Maryland, attempted to hire an undercover police officer to put two bullets into his mom for grounding him.

There's something different happening with him that is grounding him.

Although Brian and Stewie punish Chris by grounding him, they try to clear his name.

"We would have grounded him," said his mother, who is 72.

Teddy hadn't started it yet, so she grounded him for the weekend.

An unruly brown beard, touched with gray, grounded him in manhood.

When Tomo got home, his father grounded him for two months — which lasted just two weeks.

His first marriage, nine years ago, is said to have grounded him.