Sentence examples for slight grinding from inspiring English sources

There's a slight grinding of gears between King as analyst and King as polemicist, too.

Unlike the standard method used for filtering rice [ 21], dispersed cells were obtained by slight grinding of the callus.

The pleasures of childhood are undercut by slights, threats and grinding poverty, and even the rosiest scenes turn dark at the edges, like the game his mother made of the family wash.

"There was a slight jar followed by this grinding sound," he told the British Wreck Commissioner's inquiry.

Because heat generated by each grinding step was accumulated, a slight increase in the surface temperature was observed.

South Africa's Daily Maverick website commented on Friday: "That slight tremor you felt yesterday was not the grinding or snapping of tectonic plates.

The slight differences in the organic compounds between the residues on the grinding plate and the grinding stone in the present study indicated that they might not come from the same set in use.

Its lapses into self-indulgence - the grinding noise of Pulk/Pull Revolving Doors, the overlong Like Spinning Plates - are occasional and slight and massively overshadowed by its surfeit of haunting musical shifts and unconventional melodies.

In it, the British art historian Julian Stallabrass wonders how it is "that Lawler's art, which is sly, slight and light, quick, jokey, agile, epigrammatic, and perhaps subversive, has elicited a literature that is slow, ponderous, grinding, and heavy".

A slight increase in temperature with finer grit sizes was attributed to the cumulative effect of a longer total grinding time.

It's about grinding and grinding and grinding and grinding.