Sentence examples for were ground up for from inspiring English sources

Those caught were ground up for pet food.

The coral was typically taken to provide souvenirs for tourists or to be ground up for use in house paint.

"It would be irrational to think that in ten years' time we will continue to allow a fish that could feed people to be ground up for farming," says Mr Vernal.

The old-growth Douglas fir that Portland's houses are rich with is regraded and resold, while water-wasting old toilets are sent to be ground up for roadbeds.

Many of them resell relatively new equipment and send the rest to be ground up for proper disposal.

The front teeth of the horse, called incisors, nip off forage, and food is ground up for swallowing by the premolars and molars.

Introduced in 1906, the sign is designed to resemble a bundle of tobacco leaves, which used to be ground up for the customer.

That it reached another digit — into a thousand dollars — has gotten people excited, but its price has been grinding up for two years.

Their remains were ground up after they were mistaken for members of a rival cartel in the eastern state of Veracruz.

That was the season when Hepburn, who was fifteen, and her fellow citizens were grinding up tulip bulbs for flour, and people were dying in the streets.

As the chief watchman for Riverkeeper Inc., a private environmental group based here, he helped build legal cases against power plants whose water pumps were grinding up millions of fish, against ship owners for polluting water, against towns for allowing sewage to taint the river and against a host of industries for failing to cut releases of toxic chemicals.