How to Use grind on in a Sentence

grind on

phrasal verb

• The longer this war grinds on, the more pressure there is going to be to sue for peace.
  — ABC News, 6 Aug. 2023
• At the heart of it all were the dancers, the women who stripped in front of crowds and who would grind on strangers’ laps for money.
  — John Koopman, Rolling Stone, 21 Sep. 2023
• All the while, military spending has soared as the war grinds on.
  — Francesca Ebel, Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2023
• Sure, the party may grind on for a bit, but there’s no use in holding out for a second wind.
  — Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 21 June 2024
• As the strike grinds on, the doctors are losing the battle for public opinion.
  — Max Kim, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2024
• That would be a big setback for morale, which is already wavering as the war grinds on.
  — Armstrong Williams, Baltimore Sun, 21 Feb. 2024
• What compounded the horror was his mounting sense of failure as the war ground on.
  — Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 1 July 2023
• When winter grinds on, do as the Danes do: Rather than resist, embrace and savor the season.
  — Samantha Laine Perfas, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Feb. 2024
• The list of names of Gaza Palestinian artists, writers, and educators killed in the war is growing by the day as the conflict grinds on.
  — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Jan. 2024
• Long story short, one of them got their nose broken by a local for trying to grind on his girlfriend.
  — Alex Zaragoza, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2023
• Many protester demands have zeroed in on links to the Israeli military as the war grinds on in Gaza.
  — CBS News, 4 May 2024
• Meanwhile, as the Ukraine war grinds on, the temperature continues to rise.
  — Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Nov. 2023
• As the Ukraine war has ground on for over a year, Russia has intensified its crackdown on dissent.
  — Luke Johnson, The New Republic, 19 Apr. 2023
• The only consensus is that the current march toward anarchy will grind on and civilians will bear the cost.
  — Jason Motlagh, Rolling Stone, 26 Nov. 2023
• And as the war has ground on, Russia has witnessed increasingly harsh measures against these groups.
  — Paulina Villegas, Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2023
• In Ukraine, where war with Russia grinds on, the dominant question has become: Can one side outlast the other?
  — Dara Massicot, Foreign Affairs, 2 Nov. 2023
• After pole dancing his way into hell and grinding on the devil, Lil Nas X is ready to climb his way back up to the pearly gates with an enchanting new clip.
  — Stephen Daw, Billboard, 30 Nov. 2023
• Russia’s war in Ukraine is set to grind on, and the Iranian regime shows no signs of moderating its behavior.
  — Dina Esfandiary, Foreign Affairs, 17 Feb. 2023
• How long can studios keep shelling out money if the strike grinds on indefinitely?
  — Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 19 July 2023
• Transcript In Ukraine, where war with Russia grinds on, the dominant question has become: Can one side outlast the other?
  — Dara Massicot, Foreign Affairs, 2 Nov. 2023
• The feline rides atop his F-bombing-dropping friend, grinds on rails and rides across walls while making spectacular leaps over chasms like Tony Hawk.
  — Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 4 July 2024
• Thus, the carousel of trading-favors-for-dirt grinds on — until much later, in a retrospective wrap-up of fates and evolutions.
  — Joan Frank, Washington Post, 12 July 2023
• Disquiet over military rather than social spending is rising in Europe as the war in Ukraine grinds on.
  — Roger Cohen, New York Times, 28 Aug. 2023
• The war in Ukraine is just the most recent example of a fight that grinds on not because of strategic dilemmas alone but because both sides find the idea of settlement repugnant.
  — Christopher Blattman, Foreign Affairs, 29 Nov. 2022
• As Russia’s war grinds on, the Biden Administration is now taking on bigger risks to support Ukraine.
  — Ian Bremmer, TIME, 6 June 2024
• Russia may not have received enough Iranian drones to shut down Ukraine’s power grid this winter, but the war grinds on, production is ramping up, and the drone attacks keep coming.
  — David Hambling, Popular Mechanics, 21 Apr. 2023
• Even as the fighting in Gaza has ground on, there also have been periodic flare-ups along Israel’s northern border with Lebanon, where the militant group Hezbollah has a strong presence.
  — Paul Schemm, Washington Post, 21 Nov. 2023
• As the war has ground on, Russia has witnessed increasingly harsh measures against transgender people.
  — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 11 Sep. 2023
• All the while, the 2024 election cycle grinds on, raising the question of how much this unfolding foreign policy issue may influence voters.
  — Tal Axelrod, ABC News, 9 Oct. 2023
• Violence grinds on unabated, and civilians subsist on meager aid provision—in areas where they can be reached.
  — Emma Beals and Peter Salisbury, Foreign Affairs, 30 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 11 Sep 2024