Sentence examples for grounds over from inspiring English sources

(If you're under 50: A percolator was a coffeepot that held ground coffee in a metal basket perched on a skinny hollow stem. Water boiled up the stem and plopped over the grounds, over and over. A glass knob on the lid let you watch the brew bubble and blacken. When it was dark enough, you poured yourself a mug and sat down with eggs, toast, stewed prunes, the paper and a cigarette).

We clambered down to the cemetery grounds, over a huge pile of stinking rubbish.

China Daily quoted a park official as saying that 1.5 million relics had been looted or lost from old palace grounds over the years.

As spring approaches, the birds drift north to their breeding grounds, over which they may wheel one day only to disappear and return on another day.

But Amnesty says: "The number of people detained on political grounds over the past six months is likely to be in the thousands".

As I ran fine grounds over my tongue with each sip, I felt the rare thrill that comes with enjoying traditional food and drink faithfully rendered.

Then a sinker: grounder over second base for another single.

Not surprisingly, he was on less certain ground over immigration.

Some Germans seem to relish the unusual opportunity to take the moral high ground over Nazism.

The ECB thought they had the moral high ground over Kevin Pietersen.

Three-quarters of the Nile cruise fleet was grounded over the Christmas high season.