Sentence examples for if not ground from inspiring English sources

Most were delightful if not ground shaking.

Of course, some analysts predict that a return to $140-a-barrel oil would put a crimp on the airline industry, if not ground it altogether.

The wormwood can be chopped or crumbled (if not ground).

An appealing if not ground-breaking landscapist, Mr. Goldenberg paints rural scenes in a patchwork, architecturally ordered, busily textured style, using cheerfully bright greens and yellows with a not-too-fussy brush (Johnson).

Peaty, however, is nothing if not grounded and looked ahead to the World Championships, and the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro next year.

There were attempts at some decentralization, if not ground-up organization, of homeland security during the Bush Administration.

Politics is nothing if not grounded in the empirical, nothing if not contingent, nothing if not subject to revision and compromise.

But looking at the present day through the lens of the recent and not so recent past provides food for thought, if not grounds for pessimism.

But what developed rather quickly was the opposite pole, that this is, if not sacred ground, at least charged ground.

Coming as it did between the moment when the league had been on the brink of collapse, at the end of 2001, and before the arrival of David Beckham, or the first rumblings of MLS 2.0 fan culture with Toronto's entry in 2007, it is arguable that when Red Bull bought its team there were at least reasonable business grounds, if not cultural grounds, for a scorched-earth reinvention.

Beef fat may be added to "hamburger" but not "ground beef," if the meat is ground and packaged at a USDA-inspected plant.