WordNet
Usage examples of "grind away".
The body that enclosed the cutter head also contained the drive motors that provided the enormous power it took to thrust the cutter's teeth into the rock, and the hydraulic presses that exerted the immense pressure it took to force the TBM into solid wall and grind away the rock.
They could and did continue to kill their attackers and grind away their strength, but they could not prevent XLIII Corps from completing its mission.
The man was dishonest to the core and I confess I found it entertaining to watch the legal system grind away at him.
I don't so much cut stones as grind away the excess to reveal the natural beauty within.
But to sit here, doing nothing but make little guerrilla raids on their outposts, while they grind away our nation&mdash.
He reached up to rub at his disbelieving eyes, to grind away the nightmare with his own knuckles, and happened to glance at his hands.
It never occurred to him to steal hours from the night to grind away at the massive brick and stonework, and indeed neither of them ever heard Jack at his self-appointed task, a gigantic rat gnawing at its cage in the darkness with infinite patience and determination.
Beneath the placid surface, ugly mechanisms grind away at secret tasks.