GROUND in a Sentence

Learn GROUND from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
420 example sentences for GROUND, such as:
1. The baby is playing on the ground.
2. The roots of this tree go deep into the ground.
3. He took the lamp from her and set it on the ground.
4. The dancer's feet hardly seemed to touch the ground.
5. She showed him around the ground floor of the empty house.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of GROUND
ground
 v.  fix firmly and stably
 v.  confine or restrict to the ground
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  I didn't need to have anybody tell me I was losing ground every day.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
2  Then, wheels ground sharply on the graveled driveway, and the soft murmur of Ellen's voice dismissing the coachman floated into the room.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
3  What a young miss could do and what she could not do were as different as black and white in Mammy's mind; there was no middle ground of deportment between.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
4  The crowd swarmed about him, tall glasses and palmetto fans abandoned on tables and on the ground.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
5  Every foot of ground, every tree and brook, every lane and bridle path reminded her of him.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
6  There were so many uniforms in the crowd--so many uniforms on so many men whom Scarlett knew, men she had met on hospital cots, on the streets, at the drill ground.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
7  In fact, she could endure the hospital with equanimity now because it was a perfect happy hunting ground.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
8  "Hold the reins," said Rhett shortly, swinging to the ground and tossing the bridle to Uncle Peter.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
9  This was familiar ground and far more interesting than military operations.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
10  The townsfolk sheltered as best they could in cellars, in holes in the ground and in shallow tunnels dug in railroad cuts.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
11  A man who lay upon the ground at her feet, his head pillowed on his canteen, grinned up companionably at her words.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
12  He took the lamp from her and set it on the ground.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
13  He reached up roughly, caught her under the arms and swung her to the ground beside him.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
14  His feet ground on the pebbles of the road and for a moment she saw his big shoulders looming up in the dark.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
15  "I'll make a hant out of you if you don't get out of this wagon," said Scarlett, who was in no mood for argument, as she climbed lamely down to the ground.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  The best remedy against an ill man is much ground between.
2  Youth is to prepare the material, want to build a bridge to the moon, or on the ground and two palaces or temples.
3  The agent had no suitable properties on his books but promised to keep an ear to the ground for us.
4  We have already succeeded in working out ground rules with the Department of Defense.
5  The animal lay on the ground, its whole body twitching and jerking.
6  You need a flexible approach in devising your ground plan for bargaining.
7  The stakes are pushed or hammered into the ground and can be used for marking an area, supporting a plant or forming part of a fence.
8  He's annoying to argue with because he keeps shifting his ground.
9  She showed him around the ground floor of the empty house.
10  The Republicans took the moral high ground with the message that they were best equipped to manage the authority.
11  The baby is playing on the ground.
12  He threw the ball to me, but I missed it and it landed on the ground.
13  They beat him down to the ground and stamped him on his body.
14  The dancer's feet hardly seemed to touch the ground.
15  The roots of this tree go deep into the ground.