Sentence examples for starting to grind from inspiring English sources

An official inauguration was still many days away, but, down here, the gears of governance were already starting to grind.

A couple of years ago, she found herself running a cost-benefit analysis of a friendship from her early 20s that was starting to grind her down.

"THERE is no alternative but defeat," says Joschka Fischer, Germany's Green foreign minister, trying to talk up his government's bitterly contested budget-and-tax reforms now starting to grind through parliament.

About an hour into the experience, and after eating a mess can's worth of macaroni cheese (£6) just for the warmth, I was starting to grind my teeth with impatience.

"Essentially, they're kind of the lubricant in the academic process, and the gears are starting to grind very loudly," said Patrick Kelly, an associate professor of history and the chairman of the Faculty Senate, who canvassed department heads about the problems caused by the strike.

If you choose this method for chopping your horseradish, be sure to add a small amount of cold water, and cut the horseradish roots in a few pieces before starting to grind the mixture.

I started to grind.

A machine starts to grind, then stops.

"Normally I'm a grumpy old man – whenever I read about celebrity I start to grind my teeth and pull my hair; it seems synonymous with idiocy.

But the Giants had formidable strength off the interchange bench and their greater bulk and experience started to grind down the Wigan youngsters as the first half proceeded.

That kind of sets it in my body a little bit, kind of creates that type of mentality: you go up there and start to grind a little bit more".