grind

01. I like this café. They [grind] their own coffee, so it's really fresh.

02. The waiter [ground] fresh pepper over my pasta dish.

03. We bought a coffee [grinder] for my mom for her birthday.

04. There's a frightening [grinding] sound coming from the engine of my car.

05. You should [grind] your knives; they're getting pretty dull.

06. It's been a real [grind] at work this month; overtime every day, and I even have to go in sometimes on weekends.

07. We [ground] down the ends of the metal, so they wouldn't be too sharp.

08. My very first semester at university was quite a [grind], but it's much better now.

09. He put the meat from the bear he shot through a [grinder] to make sausage.

10. He [ground] the block of dry paint into a fine powder.

11. Historians believe the windmill originated in Iran around 1400 years ago and was used to [grind] grain.

12. Birds chew with their stomach; they swallow small rocks to [grind] up their food because they don't have teeth.

13. The dentist told me I've been [grinding] my teeth at night, and it could cause me problems in the future.

14. In Baghdad in the ninth century, oregano was [ground] up and used as a food preservative.

15. Oliver Wendell Holmes once suggested that society is always trying in some way to [grind] us down to a single flat surface.