grindstone

How To Use grindstone In A Sentence

• Grindstones can easily be made locally from 20 litres of good quality cement and 50 litres of quartzitic sand with 1 mm or smaller particle size. Chapter 3
• Juventus director Alessio Secco has told the squad that putting their noses to the grindstone will be a quick fix solution to their problems. Yahoo! Sports - Top News
• This can be done by rubbing away surplus metal with a grindstone, whetstone, oilstone, steel, ceramic rod, leather strop or the palm of your hand.
• This grindstone bubble fountain makes an attractive incidental feature in this narrow border and is not difficult to make.
• Climbing on the roof, Gawain suddenly heard a violent noise, clattering off the cliff like a grindstone on a scythe.
• The most important possessions of the miller were his pairs of grindstones, which were incredibly expensive.
• Forget the trouble and strife (and I know what that's a cockneyism for!) forget the chores and the deadlines, forget that the nose is at the grindstone!
• He feels as much sympathy for these victims as he does for slaves who died centuries earlier turning some tyrant's grindstone.
• ChangeWave keeps its nose to a shorter-term grindstone -- he called the category's ability to grow in the face of a serious economic downturn "astounding. ARN News
• This can be done by rubbing away surplus metal with a grindstone, whetstone, oilstone, steel, ceramic rod, leather strop or the palm of your hand.