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How to use grindstone in a sentence

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The grinding of the grain was done with a grindstone called a Rotary Quern, or a Hand Quern if you were poorer.
She kept her nose to the grindstone, her feet on the ground and her hands to herself.
Determined to become a chiropractor from a very early age, she kept her nose to the grindstone all through high school and college.
Forget the trouble and strife forget the chores and the deadlines, forget that the nose is at the grindstone!
We also took turns at turning the crank of the grindstone when scythes needed to be sharpened.
But at York Crown Court, Judge John Swanson kept his nose so hard to the grindstone, the court staff had to work in relays to keep up with him.
Men occasionally damaged axes, meaning a visit to a nearby grindstone to hone a nick from the edge.
I found him at the grindstone, turning it with one hand as he held a butchery knife to it with the other.
We are expected to keep our nose to the grindstone at work, be mindful at school and be reverent in church.
His master, Monsieur Vanderdendur, cut off his hand when his finger got caught in the grindstone in a sugar mill.
I must keep my nose to the grindstone, adhere to routine, and remain undistracted by impulses and passion.
Climbing on the roof, Gawain suddenly heard a violent noise, clattering off the cliff like a grindstone on a scythe.
Brian keeps my nose to the grindstone and I continue to drive him up the wall with my behind-the-scene questions.
I wouldn't saddle him with a debt where he'd have to keep his nose to the grindstone for the rest of his life.
He is seen sharpening a weapon on an old-fashioned grindstone.
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.
He has kept his nose to the grindstone and will be pointing to investment and projects in the area as part of the benefits of having a local councillors.
He just knew that if he kept his nose to the grindstone and did an honest, good day's work, it would pay off and it certainly has in every position he's done.
Setting your shoulder to the wheel, your nose to the grindstone, putting away childish things.
To be in a soap you have to be someone who is prepared to be at the grindstone, because it's all hands on deck.
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Examples from Classical Literature
It was more like a superior sort of traveling-tinker's grindstone than anything else.
Auguste had expected his voice to be like thunder, but it shrilled like a knife on a grindstone.
The wheelbarrows and the grindstone and the two crosscut saws were another matter.
Their weapons and tools are highly polished, and have evidently been ground on a grindstone.
And he pointed to a grindstone that was turning and doing its work exactly like the others.
Emery, carborundum and Alundum wheels are developed from the grindstone of the distant past.
The pottery when cold may be dressed on a grindstone if necessary.
The grindstone for woodworking tools is best when rather fine and soft.
But a grindstone should never stand in water or it would rot.
Oil is used on oilstones for the same purpose as water on a grindstone.
Oh, but he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge!
She beckoned to arrowhead, and he followed her to the grindstone.
He is also to bring over a grindstone to sharpen the spears on.
As you say, we have had dull times since the steel and grindstone eloped and left us.
Sparks fly from a grindstone when you are sharpening a knife.
Surface impurity can of course be got rid of by means of a grindstone.
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