How to Use ground in in a Sentence

ground in

verb

• The drone covers the same ground in four.
  — Michelle Williams, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026
• The project broke ground in 2021.
  — Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 17 Feb. 2026
• Spread crushed cloves or coffee grounds in the area to deter them.
  — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 28 May 2026
• Place a bowl of coffee beans or coffee grounds in your fridge.
  — Taylor Tobin, Southern Living, 24 Feb. 2026
• That keeps you grounded in the creative process.
  — Andrea Flores, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2026
• The restaurant is known for its burgers, with beef ground in-house.
  — Susan Selasky, Freep.com, 2 Apr. 2026
• John and Amy decided to stand their ground in court.
  — Charles Bell, The Conversation, 20 Apr. 2026
• But to make up all that ground in a short period of time felt daunting.
  — Mike Defabo, New York Times, 1 June 2026
• Masli covers a lot of ground in search of people with problems.
  — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 26 Jan. 2026
• While these options may be less marketable, they are grounded in law.
  — Kaitlyn Gomez, USA Today, 19 Jan. 2026
• In many ways, they’re grounded in a scarcity mindset about time.
  — Aiko Bethea, Big Think, 22 Apr. 2026
• She’s grounded in her own sense of worth—and the results speak for themselves.
  — Connie Etemadi, USA Today, 24 Feb. 2026
• The project has been in the works for more than five years and broke ground in October.
  — Noah Daly updated May 12, Idaho Statesman, 12 May 2026
• The rhythmic ticking of an analog clock could be grounding in some rooms.
  — Jamie Cuccinelli, Martha Stewart, 9 Apr. 2026
• Your optimism works best when grounded in facts, so keep promises small and doable.
  — Tarot.com, Chicago Tribune, 17 June 2026
• Those concerns are grounded in data.
  — Karen Kornbluh, Fortune, 20 May 2026
• The service was grounded in themes of lasting impact.
  — Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 30 May 2026
• That success came from policies grounded in science, not rhetoric.
  — Timothy Vermillion, New York Daily News, 3 Feb. 2026
• Half the claims weren’t grounded in science, and those that were often hadn’t been peer-reviewed.
  — Robert Johnson, Rolling Stone, 1 May 2026
• So the visual language should also feel matter-of-fact and grounded in some way.
  — Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 18 June 2026
• There, Houston will look to make up lost ground in the AL West.
  — Chandler Rome, New York Times, 21 May 2026
• The first is grounded in the notion that the United States is a work in progress.
  — Yoni Appelbaum, The Atlantic, 8 June 2026
• Builders first broke ground in 2013—but then paused work in 2018 for five years.
  — Nathalie Nietzsche-Knappe, Architectural Digest, 7 Apr. 2026
• Founders can do the same with weekly or monthly check-ins grounded in data — not emotion.
  — Lisa Song Sutton, Rolling Stone, 7 Apr. 2026
• There’s usually space for a guy who can cover ground in the outfield and cause havoc on the bases, though.
  — Zack Meisel, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2026
• Gone Wrong is grounded in tradition.
  — Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Pitchfork, 26 Jan. 2026
• Of course, what seals the deal is the groove, grounded in Rodgers’s radiant rhythm guitar.
  — New York Times, 28 Apr. 2026
• Reju is breaking ground in the United States.
  — Jasmin Malik Chua, Sourcing Journal, 20 Jan. 2026
• These are bits grounded in lived experience.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 23 Jan. 2026
• King’s support for Jews was grounded in moral memory.
  — Ed Gaskin, Boston Herald, 15 Feb. 2026