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grit Noun

— Grit is very small pieces of stone. The wind blew a fine grit that got in her teeth, hair, and eyes. Rinse the lettuce thoroughly under cold running water to remove grit and sand. — If you have grit, you have the strength to keep going despite many difficulties. Although we lost today, we showed real grit, courage, and a refusal to quit.

grit Verb

— If you grit your teeth, you bite them together, usually as you face a difficulty. Gritting her teeth, she jumped into the icy water. — If you grit a road or sidewalk, you put small pieces of stone on it to make it less slippery. They've changed from salting the road in the winter, to gritting it.

grit

— noun a hard coarse-grained siliceous sandstone — verb clench together grit one's teeth — verb cover with a grit grit roads — noun (= guts) fortitude and determination he didn't have the guts to try it

Synonyms grit synonyms

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grit English » English

gravel sand pebble courage pluck rubble nerve guts gritstone bravery spirit gritrock grind crunch coarse sand backbone willpower moxie gumption gnash creak aggregate valour valor streptococcus stone stamina spunk soul small particles slack scratch sandgravel porridge perseverance particle size mettled mettle mesh size lattice heart hard sludge gutsiness gut gruel grinding powder grille grate granularity graininess

Topics grit topics

What do people use grit to talk about?
Universe, creation World Substance, matter

Rock
Social behavior Prosperity, trouble Respond to trouble

Brave

Conjugation grit conjugation

How do you conjugate grit?

grit · verb

Examples grit examples

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Simple sentences

The council refuses to grit my road.
My university can't afford to grit its car parks.
Grit in a sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own high-power lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a nature such as his.
I admire your grit.

Movie subtitles

Don't worry, if I'm stuck with a rich girl I'll grit my teeth and make the best of it.
A man I knew lost the sight in one eye through getting a bit of grit in it.
Looks like a bit of grit.
That's how it all began - just through me getting a little piece of grit in my eye.
For everything - for meeting you in the first place. for taking the piece of grit out of your eye. for loving you, for bringing you so much misery.
Full of grit.
You gave us the grit to get our town back.
Grit your teeth.
Legs apart and grit your teeth.
Isn't that the kind of grit and never-say-die spirit that's made this a great country? It is, isn't it?
They say you're a man with true grit.
They say he has grit.
I wanted a man with grit.
I was told Rooster Cogburn has grit.
They've got more grit than your braves.
Good! You show some grit.
Grit your teeth and do it.
I grit my teeth, tighten my belt and fall on my knees and beg for a little piece of cake.
Took every ounce of grit and determination in me.
And come with grit teeth. Because, gentlemen, that's when school really begins.
It's got grit all over it.
Breck, you pound sand into him, you're liable to find grit.
Now, you just grit your teeth a little bit longer.
We need a man with grit, Cogburn.
Well, you may think so, but look at all these orders I got from this ad I took out in Grit magazine.
Some call me a grit-eatir blackleg gambler.
Especially when you grit your teeth.
Grit your teeth and shut your eyes.
So you grit your teeth but you're out of breath, your bones seem to break, your heart pounds so hard that it'll burst.
A bit of grit in your winkles and you're spitting and splattering all over the place.
Two of her fingernails are broken off and there's dirt or grit under them.
Did you close your eyes and grit your teeth and think of the cash?
I just actually never seen a grit before.
What is a grit, anyways?
How could it take you five minutes to cook your grits when it takes the entire grit-eating world 20 minutes?
Are we to believe that boiling water soaks into a grit faster in your kitchen than on any place on the face of the earth?
Just gotta grit your teeth and slog through it.
And grit with teeth.
Okay. Radioactive road grit.

News and current affairs

British resistance to grand European plans is the democratic grit in an enterprise that could become authoritarian, despite having the best intentions, and should serve as a necessary corrective to the utopianism of the technocrats.
There is more grit on the horizon.
Its acolytes deplore the grit and relativism of politics and issue futile appeals for moral revivals.
Suddenly, the prospect of a new majority beckoned, and Merkel was faced with the choice of giving in or ending the coalition. She grit her teeth and gave in.

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