Sentence examples for was being ground from inspiring English sources

Several spacewalks in the past year have been devoted to examining the damage, but the cause of the problem and the precise part that was being ground away by the rotating joint are still unclear.

But reading Friday Night Lights and learning about Carter High School and Gary Edwards, about the crushing nihilistic apathy that had set in across post-industrial Texas in the 1980s, about the lack of prospects that the students the book concerns faced and the way in which state education was being ground down by a mixture of policy and pressure from sporting bodies, made me reconsider.

I was being ground down by a trivial bureaucracy".

Those of us, myself included, who can sing all the songs from the 1965 Rodgers and Hammerstein television production came of age just as the prince's reputation was being ground to dust, along with other remnants of pre-'60s culture, but we remember.

The next day Mitchell told him he was being grounded and sent home, and "made clear that he was not going home a hero".

Viewers are left to draw their own conclusions and to sort out when reputations are being protected or axes are being ground.

Original spice blends are being ground; falafel fashioned from raw materials; lamb shoulders and beef being mixed for kofta.

Then, on Friday morning, news came that planes were being grounded at LaGuardia Airport, in New York.

French officials, upset that their planes were being grounded, commissioned a secret study concluding that the technology was a fabrication.

After telling reporters the planes were being grounded "effective immediately," Trump went off script, indicating it was not solely a safety-based decision.

The idea that whatever does the grounding also somehow explains what is being grounded is a crucial part of the notion's appeal.