And, at every step, endless waiting for some paper to grind its way through the legal labyrinth.

He ground the words through the phone line.

She even rooted for her teammates as they ground through a losing season.

"You're just grinding through all those stupid defenses when you know none of them will work!"

The car was grinding through its gears,speeding up and coming our way.

They ground on together, word by word, through the next three paragraphs.

The performance shows we're together as a group, we have the backing of the owners and we'll grind through it.

"We just kept grinding through the rough spots early in the season," King said.

It will grind through that period with growth of somewhere between 0.5 percent and 1 percent.

In fact, he'd been there so many times he actually seemed anxious to grind through the details.