Grindstone is an English word with synonyms like stone or sharpener. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Grindstone in a sentence
Grindstone meaning
- An abrasive wheel for sharpening, polishing, or grinding.
- Synonym of starry flounder.
Using Grindstone
- The main meaning on this page is: An abrasive wheel for sharpening, polishing, or grinding. | Synonym of starry flounder.
- Useful related words include: stone, sharpener.
- In the example corpus, grindstone often appears in combinations such as: the grindstone, grindstone for, grindstone and.
Context around Grindstone
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 7 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 18 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Grindstone
- In this selection, "grindstone" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 25.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, old, adele, new, forever, tunnel and battle stand out and add context to how "grindstone" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a new grindstone for his and at the grindstone about it. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "grindstone" sits close to words such as aaditya, aardman and abbo, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with grindstone
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
And it does not have to be nose to the grindstone forever. (12 words)
When your nose is to the grindstone, all you can see is the grindstone. (14 words)
The singers put their noses to their grindstone and their eyes to the score. (14 words)
She said their wedding was very beautiful and talked about how her aunt, Adele Grindstone (Little Dog), who served as her maid of honor, had bought her everything she needed, from her wedding dress, to shoes, to jewelry and their wedding cake. (42 words)
Sometimes, multiple proverbs are important parts of poems, such as Paul Muldoon 's "Symposium", which begins "You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it hold its nose to the grindstone and hunt with the hounds. (40 words)
It's part of a 20-year proposal to extend the old Peripheral Canal by digging a Grindstone tunnel through the mountains out into the Central Valley into an aqueduct to send the water south. (35 words)
Example sentences (18)
When your nose is to the grindstone, all you can see is the grindstone.
As the caring Moon in your social sector reaches out to the warm Sun in your relationship zone, someone else might make an effort to lure your nose away from the grindstone.
Sure, you tend to be super-independent and prefer to lead the charge versus being one of many putting your nose to the grindstone for a common cause.
And it does not have to be nose to the grindstone forever.
It's part of a 20-year proposal to extend the old Peripheral Canal by digging a Grindstone tunnel through the mountains out into the Central Valley into an aqueduct to send the water south.
What ensued was a nose-to-the-grindstone battle between two emerging ACC teams: BC, who at the time sat at 5-2, and a faltering 3-4 Clemson.
After earning my J.D., I went back to the firm I’d started at, put my nose to the grindstone, and started working my way through the ranks.
A holdover from Grindstone’s parent restaurant, the Clancy’s Topper dates back to the chain’s original burger stand in Noblesville.
Before my mom died, I had been doing music, but my head wasn’t at the grindstone about it.
Indeed, we were all so overcome with the exhaustion of leaflet delivery that an emergency “team building” session had to be hurriedly arranged in “The Old Grindstone” in the evening.
She said their wedding was very beautiful and talked about how her aunt, Adele Grindstone (Little Dog), who served as her maid of honor, had bought her everything she needed, from her wedding dress, to shoes, to jewelry and their wedding cake.
The singers put their noses to their grindstone and their eyes to the score.
Each home had a kitchen with an open roof, which contained a grindstone for milling grain and a small oven for baking the bread.
Glidden experimented with a grindstone to twist two wires together to hold the barbs on the wire in place.
Japanese folktale Shiofuki usu speaks of a grindstone that could be used to create anything.
Loki refers to Byggvir in terms of a dog, and says that Byggvir is always found at Freyr's ears, or twittering beneath a grindstone.
On one of the family's visits back to the hills, a miller bought a cake baked by Elly May at a fair because he needed a new grindstone for his flour mill.
Sometimes, multiple proverbs are important parts of poems, such as Paul Muldoon 's "Symposium", which begins "You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it hold its nose to the grindstone and hunt with the hounds.
Common combinations with grindstone
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: