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
• For the first record, two people in teddy bear costumes joined her on the stage to grind on her leg.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 1 July 2024
• 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
• Netanyahu’s nearly hour-long address to Congress came as the war in Gaza grinds on for the 10th month.
  — Ellie Silverman, Washington Post, 30 July 2024
• As the war in Gaza grinds on, Israel’s endgame remains unclear.
  — Audrey Kurth Cronin, Foreign Affairs, 7 Aug. 2024
• As the strike grinds on, the doctors are losing the battle for public opinion.
  — Max Kim, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2024
• The turf wars will grind on, and don’t adjust your TV set if the grass appears greener somewhere else.
  — Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 7 Sep. 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
• Neither the Russian elite nor the Russian public shows any signs of breaking with Putin, and the war in Ukraine grinds on, with no end in sight.
  — Edward Fishman, Foreign Affairs, 23 Feb. 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
• Nearly two-and-a-half years later, the war grinds on with Ukrainians fighting a battle for survival and trying to push Russian forces out of their country.
  — Aleks Klosok, CNN, 7 Aug. 2024
• 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

Last Updated: 11 Nov 2024