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
• 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
• 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
• How long can studios keep shelling out money if the strike grinds on indefinitely?
  — Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 19 July 2023
• 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
• 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
• Those billions have been sitting untapped as the war grinds on, now in its third year, while officials from multiple countries have debated the legality of sending the money to Ukraine.
  — Fatima Hussein, Quartz, 27 Feb. 2024
• Large media companies have been reporting stronger-than-expected profits as the twin strikes by Hollywood writers and actors grind on.
  — Christopher Palmeri, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Aug. 2023
• Still, many lawmakers acknowledge that winning approval for Ukraine assistance in Congress is growing more difficult as the war between Russia and Ukraine grinds on.
  — Time, 1 Oct. 2023
• Russian artillery no longer has the clear advantage and Ukrainian forces are struggling with staunch Russian defenses, grinding on in their southern offensive, slowed because of dense minefields.
  — Yurii Shyvala Mauricio Lima, New York Times, 23 July 2023
• Democrats have increasingly said Israel has gone too far as its offensive in Gaza grinds on, displacing nearly 2 million people who have little access to food, water or medicine.
  — Mikhail Klimentov, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2024
• But with tensions still running high, the industry has been bracing itself for the strikes to last for weeks and possibly months to come, making public sentiment a potentially critical factor as the dispute grinds on.
  — Josh Rottenberg, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2023
• Some Russian military bloggers have suggested that the attacks are an act of desperation by Ukraine, aimed at making headlines while its slow counteroffensive grinds on.
  — Paul Sonne, New York Times, 9 Aug. 2023
• That roughly $300 billion in Russian Central Bank money has been sitting untapped as the war grinds on, while officials from multiple countries have debated the legality of sending the money to Ukraine.
  — Fatima Hussein, Fortune Europe, 18 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024