Sentence examples for old grind from inspiring English sources

A local newspaper headline announced the news: "old grind gets bumped".

But perhaps the most important factor in Bridge's teaching is an old-fashioned one: the plain old grind, the "time on task" that is key to learning.

Whenever authors of crime fiction feel like taking a break from the old grind, they usually put on a smiley face -- a children's book from Tony Hillerman, a cookbook from Robert B. Parker, a collection of cozy Christmas stories from Mary Higgins Clark.

Far from being a case of an author of a crime series "taking a break from the old grind," this seems to be another example of a publisher trying to pass off old work as new, and mentioning it nowhere on the jacket or in the book itself.

And if Destiny is fundamentally the same old grind, the art does a brilliant job of representing it as something nobler.

"With VHS it's like I'm experiencing an old grind-house movie theater.

Serial-killer thrillers like "The Silence of the Lambs" and "No Country for Old Men" win Academy Awards while the torture-porn of movies like "The Human Centipede" and "Hostel" makes the old grind-house screamers look virginal.

Its narrow, dusty streets are lined with small wooden booths where soot-faced boys sit by hand-pumped furnaces and old grinding wheels.

Indians had camped in the hollow for centuries, leaving behind old grinding mortars and chiseled shards of the purest obsidian — the black volcanic glass once prized for making spear and arrow tips and for which the mountains were named.

This isn't any old grinding sound, it's the grinding sound of something caught in your engine.

Political insiderdom — or the illusion thereof — has moved from Georgetown salons or cordoned-off security zones to a mass e-mail list administrated by a never-married 45-year-old grind known as Mikey.