Sentence examples for was ground down from inspiring English sources

It was ground down to make livestock feed.

Before long, he was ground down by spending weeks in and out of employment.

Through more than 200 million years the Hercyman relic was ground down to its roots.

In a year and a half, he did yeoman's work to begin mobilization, but was ground down by Washington politics.

The women described how, slowly slowly, their confidence was ground down and they felt smaller and smaller".

Three of Djokovic's defeats this year were at the hands of Federer, who beat him in the finals in Dubai and Cincinnati and in the round-robin stage here last week, but on this occasion the 34-year-old Swiss was ground down by the Serb's relentless excellence.

Like Frankie, Mike is ground down by responsibility, more so since Frankie lost her job.

In the whaling armageddon of the last century, the bones of great whales ended up being ground down for fertiliser.

In the bazaars, porters carry poles with reed baskets on the ends, filled with everything from water to rock salt, which is sold in pinkish-gray chunks before being ground down to powder.

In Britain, it has become a rude word the tabloids use for the entitlements of expensive, bothersome foreigners; they don't see vulnerable people trying to avoid being ground down by governments and armies.

When young children chew foods like peanuts, raw carrots and popcorn, some is ground down and some is not, and they tend to swallow unchewed bits of food that can block the airway or be inhaled into the bronchial tubes and lungs.