Sentence examples for which could grind from inspiring English sources

"A storm can cause a shift in a sandbar overnight," he said, which could grind a ferry to a halt.

The omnivorous Megaconus foraged by night and is named for the large mounds on its premolars, which could grind tough plant material at a point when other mammal lineages were still largely insect-eaters.

"Let's lay down some rules" we could say to the rest of the world, and then we could all start creating a few definitions and banning certain tactics (like, for instance, a cyber attack on hospital management software -- which could grind hospitals' capacity to deal with emergencies to an absolute standstill).

But those eruptions are tiny compared with a Laki-sized eruption, which could ground airplanes for 6 months or more, says Alan Robock, an atmospheric scientist at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey.

Leonard Koren, who writes books about design and aesthetics, said that for a relationship to thrive in close quarters, the couple must acquiesce to the constraints of the space, which could otherwise grind them down.

This inkstone was designed in this way, because the contemporary inks were mainly formed in small pellets, which could not be ground directly against an inkstone without the help of another smaller grinding stone [5, 6].

By which he means the parts of the public sector that could grind everything else to a halt.

An article in The Washington Post, in which defense officials were quoted yesterday as saying that the war could grind on for months, has become a rallying point for the conservatives' indignation.

The machine could grind to a halt.

The rest of the process could grind on as usual.

If the political feud intensifies, development could grind to a halt, they say.