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Example sentences for "grinds"

Lexicographically close words:
grinded; grinder; grinders; grindeth; grinding; grindstone; grindstones; gringo; gringos; grinned
  1. First, it mixes and grinds it between the teeth.

  2. From one side it grinds out flour, and from the other salt, and from the third it coins out money.

  3. And the lid is all the colours of the rainbow, and as it rocks back and forth it grinds one measure for the day, and one for the market and one for the storehouse.

  4. But there is no escaping the mill that grinds slowly and grinds small; and those who refuse to be living stones in the living temple, must be ground into mortar for it.

  5. God's mill grinds slowly, but it grinds uncommon small; and, I will add, its grinding is apt to be merciless.

  6. As it grows by the addition of other streams it picks up larger pieces, grinds them together, grinds at its banks and loads itself with rocks, pebbles, sand and clay.

  7. This tool rasps or grinds many of the lumps or clods which slip by the harrow teeth and presses others into the ground so that the harrow following can get a grip on them.

  8. There the Sampo grinds unceasing, Noisy rocks the lid in colors; Grinds one day the flour for eating, Grinds the second flour for selling, Grinds the third day flour for keeping; Thus it is Pohyola prospers.

  9. Ye whose meat is sweet And your wine-cup red, Us beneath your feet Hunger grinds as wheat, Grinds to make you bread.

  10. There the Sampo grinds for ever, And revolves the pictured cover, And one day it grinds provisions, Grinds for sale upon the second, On the third what needs the household.

  11. A mere hint from Alonzo Cheyne was more highly prized by the grinds than fulsome praise from another teacher.

  12. And to his credit it should be recorded that the grinds were the only ones he treated with any seriousness; he took pains to answer their questions; but towards the rest of us, the Chosen, he showed a thinly veiled contempt.

  13. Three women go in here, each one having a stone, with which one of them breaks the corn, the next grinds it, and the third grinds it again.

  14. It grinds not in the mill of use, Nor asks for leave, nor begs excuse; It makes the flexile laws it deigns to own, And gives its atmosphere its color and its tone.

  15. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceeding small; Though with patience He stands waiting, with exactness grinds He all.

  16. Never on custom's oiled grooves The world to a higher level moves, But grates and grinds with friction hard On granite boulder and flinty shard.

  17. Never in Custom's oiled grooves The world to a higher level moves, But grates and grinds with friction hard On granite bowlder and flinty shard.

  18. She had prepared most of the grinds with the others, but of course hers had been kept a secret and she had not seen it until this minute.

  19. It has been represented as having an easy divorce mill that constantly grinds out divorces of a more or less bogus nature.

  20. Science is teaching us that the method of evolution is that mill of God, of which we have heard, which, while it grinds with infinite efficacy, yet grinds with wearisome slowness.

  21. From the labors of a postmaster let us turn to those of an apothecary, who pounds and grinds his drugs in a mortar which has descended from the day when it reduced grain to flour.

  22. At the bottom of the producer is a Taylor rotative table which grinds out the ashes as fast as they rise above the desired depth, say every six to twenty-four hours, according to the rate of working.

  23. As the Taylor ash table turns it grinds the lower part of the fuel bed, closing any channels formed by the airblast, and restraining the formation of carbon dioxide, a useless product, to a minimum.

  24. Emery either spread on paper, or glued upon a wheel, grinds with an accuracy and speed new to art; and all that emery can do is outdone by carborundum and alundum, which slice away metal as if chalk, be its hardness what it may.

  25. Irk'd at her slighted passion, straight she grinds Herbs infamous, to gain their horrid juice; And mixes all with Hecatéan spells.

  26. When once it has forced a vent into the outside air, it tears out the rocks underground, grinds them small against each other, often into the finest dust, and blasts them out of the hole which it has made.

  27. Whether I travel by train, or do anything else, my brain works incessantly, it grinds and grinds like a mill, and I cannot make it stop.

  28. To the former Frank went, surreptitiously of course, for the Grinds are with annual regularity forbidden, but with equal regularity carried out.

  29. The United States grinds up about five million cords of wood a year in the manufacture of pulp for paper and other purposes.

  30. He is no longer dependent upon the flax and the cotton plant, but grinds up trees to get his cellulose.

  31. I would I were a bird so free, That I had wings to fly away: Unto that window I would flee, Where stands my love and grinds all day.

  32. Happy is the man who grinds at the mill; The mill turns 'round and he stands there still.


  33. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "grinds" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.