"grind" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Some plates grind past one another while others crash head-on in such a way that one plate dives beneath the other, generating especially devastating earthquakes.
- Remo threw in the clutch and let the car coast to a stop, then shifted into first gear, grinding the gears past the racing engine.
- They can be seen aboard columns of buses that grind over dust-choked roads past bombed mosques and churches, homes and factories.
- NEzt, grind the sides down about halfway, but do not grind past the point where the front of the sight makes contact.
- Driven by hot, upwelling fluids, the plates grind past one another at a rate of two to four inches a year, creating vast fault zones that produce earthquakes.
- On still others, the two sides grind past each other laterally.
- Colliding plates grind past one another about as fast as fingernails grow.
- The colliding plates grind past one another about as fast as fingernails grow and over time produce mountains and swarms of earthquakes as frictional stresses build and release.
- The result is that the Pacific plate no longer bumps and grinds past the North American plate.
- The Pacific Plate grinds northwestward past the North American Plate at a rate of about two inches per year.
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