Sentence examples for machine ground from inspiring English sources

Demand collapsed as the credit machine ground to a halt and getting the economy going again has proved mightily difficult.

By 1990 the German machine ground out a 1-0 victory with five defenders, a narrow midfield and two strikers, a recipe for success that has been imitated ever since.

On the contrary, the fact that Southeast Asia's growth rates barely fluttered while the Japanese growth machine ground to a halt signals a change in the regional economy.

The muffler shop owner drove his contraption through town on Friday and within two hours had knocked down or damaged nine buildings before the machine ground to a halt in the wreckage of a warehouse.

On a company tour of the site one afternoon, a drilling machine ground its way through the large boulders, cutting holes for dynamite.

The rhythm machine grounded it in the small-budget '80s new wave that its members had all been formed by; it was an instrument of counterintuition.

This is a place whose breads are homemade, where instant grits and quick grits and machine-ground grits find no welcome.

"What does it feel like when it touches your lips?" Mr. Pomp asked, noting that he prefers a smooth, rounded edge over a sharper, machine-ground finish.

Machine-ground paints were considered too fine, which would result in a loss of substantial consistency and reduced brilliance [57].

In Van Gogh's time, mass-produced machine-ground paints were already available, like those from the firm of LeFranc&cie [55].

Yet other factors might also play a role: oil absorption values largely depend on pigment particle characteristics, as size and shape, as well as on the paint manufacturing process; paints produced from grinding by hand with a muller may contain considerably more oil than modern machine-ground paints [60].