grindstone

How To Use grindstone In A Sentence

• This is nothing more than a brainwashing movement supported and funded by corporate titans and bankers to keep employees happily working at the "grindstone" while filling the coffers of the elite. The Negative Influence of Positive Thinking- The Gurus, Coaches, and Consultants
• Like I have this degree and I have this job, and I'm so stuck with it, till I can retire at 51 * according to my financialist* and I'm just going to have to keep my unhappy, bitter, nose to the grindstone till I can see my way out of it, at the age of 51. Madrigle Diary Entry
• Inside, huge grindstones are crushing wheat into flour once again, after an interruption of a century or so.
• The work is done purely by hand, and through a series of 10 whetstones, (large lumps of grindstone) the blade is filed down, sharpened, and finished with an elaborate wavy pattern.
• But her focus, front and center, is on employers eliminating work/life initiatives as the kind of frill that naturally gets suspended in hard times, and that in a recession workers just want to keep their nose to the grindstone anyway. Joan Williams: Peaceful Revolution: Women and Work: Why Employers' Work/Life Policies Can--and Should--Survive the Recession
• A knife is sharpened on the grindstone; steel is tempered in fire.
• His master, Monsieur Vanderdendur, cut off his hand when his finger got caught in the grindstone in a sugar mill.
• The primary bevels were ground back and feathered away on the grindstone, taking care not to overheat and destroy the temper.
• Men occasionally damaged axes, meaning a visit to a nearby grindstone to hone a nick from the edge.
• 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.