Sentence examples for own grain from inspiring English sources

As self-identified modernists, they were working against their own grain.

"I just tried to put in my own grain of sand, and look what happened".

It reminded me of another element in this forgotten land: its capacity to turn against its own grain.

Everything the owners serve is made on the farm, even the flour, which is hand-milled from their own grain.

The look of them, the bright wood, each with its own grain, put us in a good mood.

He travelled around the country and to China, made his own wine, ground his own grain, and drove a gray Volkswagen bug.

Then I will give them their own grains of sand to take along wherever life leads, and hope they build castles and shorelines of their own, one seemingly inconsequential moment of compassion at a time.

It also operates more than 200 ships, has extensive mining operations, owns grain export elevators in Russia, stakes in oil fields off Equatorial Guinea and owns 34.4% of Xstrata, the FTSE 100 mining company, and 8% of Oleg Deripaska's Rusal, the world's top aluminium producer.

The persons owning grain mills in Rome were (to anticipate developments that continued to unfold throughout the next two or three generations) responsible for the delivery of flour for the dole and could not bequeath or withdraw any part of their capital from their enterprise.

The meat of the point actually has its own separate grain that is different from the flat's grain.

"That is why we felt compelled as a company to create our own Whole Grain Standard that is on all of our boxes and states that we mill our grain whole and never separate it.